United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 2002-12-23 monographic deposited born digital 8 p. GA 1.13:B-291001 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-291001 P0b002ee18fd48fba f:291001 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-291001 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-291001 B-291001 Comptroller General Decision Transportation Security Administration (TSA) certifying officers expressed three concerns with TSA's new Time and Attendance (T&A) approval system. In their view, (1) approval is not occurring at the appropriate level, (2) data will not be checked against independent sources, and (3) the proposed rounding of an employee's start/stop time minutes will not provide a complete and accurate agency record. Based on our discussions with TSA officials, we determined that, in accordance with Title 6 of GAO's Policy and Procedures Manual for Guidance of Federal Agencies, first-line supervisors are approving T&A data. These supervisors have personal knowledge of the time worked of the employees involved; therefore, they are not required to check the data against independent sources. In addition, TSA will maintain actual original entry records along with a trail of all changes to data to support what we consider to be the immaterial rounding of employee time in and time out data. TSA management, however, should build additional control-related steps into the T&A approval system as it further develops and implements the system. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-291001/html/GAOREPORTS-B-291001.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-291001/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-291001.pdf GAO/B-291001 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-291001 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-291001; Transportation Security Administration's Proposed Time and, B-291001, December 23, 2002; Volume 115 Page 597 115 Stat. 597 Volume 116 Page 2135 116 Stat. 2135 Public Law 107-71 Public Law 107-296