The Decreasing Overlapping Grants Efficiently Act (DOGE Act) prohibits federal agencies from awarding grants to applicants who have submitted duplicate applications for the same purpose to other agencies or who have submitted fraudulent grant applications, with an exception for colleges and universities. The bill requires the Office of Management and Budget to establish an electronic tracking system within one year that allows federal agencies and their inspectors general to identify whether grant applicants have already received funding or applied for funding elsewhere for identical or essentially equivalent work. The legislation also directs the OMB director to study the feasibility of using artificial intelligence to detect duplicate grant applications and identify waste, fraud, and abuse across federal grant programs. There is no specific funding amount allocated in the bill, and the primary deadline is one year from enactment for creating the tracking system. The bill affects all federal agencies that award grants and applies to both new applications and ongoing grants at the time the system is established.
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