The FAC participated in the Single Audit Roundtable, providing an update on our work to date and planned next steps, and used the opportunity to discuss pressing needs for auditors, resolution officials, and IGs.

We released the GSA FAC as a minimal viable product. That means we are continuing to work and improve the FAC.

What we delivered

We work in an agile manner. That means we have a long-term strategy, medium-term features we work to deliver, and make continuous improvement and bug fixes to the existing product. We update our system through pull requests, or PRs.

Features add new capabilities or documentation to the FAC
Improvements take existing code or text and increase its quality
Validations increase the integrity of the data collected or disseminated by the FAC.

FAC feature additions, system improvements, and data validations for the week of October 16, 2023.
PR	Type	Description
2569	Feature	Add system command for generating test data in production environments
2572	Feature	Allow users to unlock submissions once locked
2610	Feature	Create backup of media files
2617	Feature	Test data for historical data migration
2627	Feature	Prepare workbook generator for use in historical migration
2563	Improvement	Test data generator improvements to align with data intake checks
2568	Improvement	Code simplification in end-to-end test environment
2571	Improvement	Improve data generation command for reuse across environments
2595	Improvement	Copy improvements and styling for submission unlock
2596	Improvement	Remove unused application code
2613	Improvement	Fix PDF download infrastructure
2624	Improvement	Update software versions for deployment automations
2586	Validation	Assert all data ranges expected are present in workbooks

Challenges

We encountered a bug on Friday, October 27th. This is not a bug in our software, but in one of our support systems. We are working with our systems providers to understand this bug and resolve it. Until it is resolved, we have to slow releases into our production environment. This bug does not impact data quality or the current operation of the FAC.

What's next?

We are currently working on search. We have a version ready for release, but are unable to promote it to production due to underlying system issues. Search includes the ability to download PDFs, both via the website and API.

After releasing search, our priorities are:

Adding the ability to add, remove, or change auditors and certifying officials who are attached to the audit.
Adding the ability to search for and download Tribal audits.
Adding the ability to resubmit a previously submitted and completed audit.
Adding email notifications to alert auditees and auditors that a step is ready for them to complete.
Adding the ability to bulk download search results.

Opportunities

Do you have an idea that could transform and improve grants management and oversight? 10x, a federal idea accelerator, is accepting proposals for new investment opportunities. All Federal employees are invited to submit ideas by November 30th.