Sec. 7. GAO Report
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The Comptroller General of the United States shall conduct a comprehensive review of the passport issuance process, including— the Bureau’s goals for timeliness of passport issuance, the basis for such goals, and its performance compared to those goals; key factors affecting timeliness of passport issuance and the extent to which the Bureau has addressed those factors; key factors affecting the implementation of technological solutions by the Bureau; the Bureau’s efforts to implement the Travel Document Issuance System
(TDIS)and other related information technology systems that support the passport issuance process with a focus on— whether the Bureau is following leading practices for developing, acquiring, and overseeing related system and infrastructure investments and leveraging existing technologies where appropriate; whether the program has the workforce to resolve technical issues within the systems; and identifying any vulnerabilities and limitations of the system that may impact performance, including single points of failure; opportunities to streamline, expedite, and otherwise enhance the Bureau’s passport issuance processes, including opportunities to reduce costs in the passport issuance process; opportunities to partner with other Federal and State agencies and leverage existing United States Government information sources, such as biometric databases, in support of the application and identity verification and resolution components of the passport issuance process; and other matters as the Comptroller General may deem appropriate. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall— brief the appropriate congressional committees on the review required by subsection (a); and submit a final report upon completion of such review. Not later than one year after the date on which the report required by subsection (b)(2) is submitted, the Assistant Secretary and the Chief Information Officer shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on progress toward resolution of each recommendation made in the report required by such subsection and planned steps that will be taken to resolve each recommendation.