More transparency about drug development would help ensure researchers don't duplicate efforts, she says.
This set-up had the disadvantage that the units often duplicated efforts on the same technology.
The GAO also found that labs could duplicate efforts and waste taxpayer money without coordinated government oversight.
This often wastes money on duplicated efforts, say the authors, and leaves citizens flummoxed by the fragmented services on offer.
"We are looking at places where there are duplicate efforts," Mr. Stutzman said, adding that Mr. Schwarzenegger had no plans to eliminate the agency.
This has lead to a dual problem of duplicated efforts and widening participation 'blind spots', mainly in rural areas with limited access to large, urban universities.
Boehmer told the Guardian that while they can not legally coordinate with the O'Malley campaign, they are not worried about duplicating efforts.
To avoid turf battles, chaotic communications and duplicated efforts, aides said, a significant realignment is under way in the West Wing, with the duties of the political office being taken up by the Democratic National Committee.
It would have been more valuable for the National Institutes of Health to have sequenced the genome of a different species, "instead of duplicating efforts again and wasting public money, so I am disappointed," Dr. Venter said, referring to the parallel efforts to decode the human genome.
