GAO at a Glance
Current for fiscal year 2011: |
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Address: |
GAO Headquarters 441 G St., NW Washington, D.C. 20548 |
Offices in the following cities: | Atlanta, GA; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX: Dayton, OH; Denver, CO; Huntsville, AL; Los Angeles, CA; Norfolk, VA; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA. |
Year GAO was founded: | 1921 |
Telephone no.: | (202) 512-3000 (employee locator) |
Agency head: |
Gene L. Dodaro Comptroller General of the United States |
Staffing level: | 3,134 employees |
Budget : | $565.7 million |
Congressional testimony: | 174 |
Measurable financial benefits from GAO work: | $45.7 billion--an $81 return on every dollar invested in GAO |
Recommendations to improve government operations: | 2,132 (At the end of fiscal 2011, 80 percent of the recommendations GAO made five years earlier had been implemented.) |