Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Watchdog Suggests 112 New Actions to Enhance Government Savings and Efficiency Taxpayer services, prison staffing and infectious disease modeling are some of the areas the Government Accountability Office listed as ripe for reforms. The federal government could save billions of dollars by transforming such disparate functions as taxpayer services, prison staffing and infectious disease modeling, according to a watchdog report. The Government Accountability Office in its eleventh annual report on “New Opportunities to Reduce Fragmentation, Overlap, and Duplication and Achieve Billions in Financial Benefits” recommended 112 new actions in 29 new areas.