Agency Oversight
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National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has questioned the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) method for reporting customer service satisfaction, calling it misleading.
October 04, 2018 -
Steven Dillingham, the Trump administration's pick to head up the Census Bureau, just 18 months out from the 2020 decennial count, faces the challenge of overseeing the first census that households can respond to online.
October 04, 2018 -
On this episode of Women of Washington, Gigi Schumm welcomed Vicky Niblett, deputy assistant commissioner within the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service. In this role, she provides management and oversight of the Integrated Award Environment (IAE).
October 03, 2018 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is spearheading an initiative to help agencies and organizations fill in the holes when it comes to implementation of data privacy protections.
October 03, 2018 -
Coming off the end of a period of sequestrations, some defense experts are worried that innovation has taken a backseat.
October 03, 2018 -
Find out what has to happen for Congress to approve a pay raise for federal workers and what's the latest on the Trump Administrations' plans to re-train what is sees as an aging, tech-challenged workforce on this week's Your Turn.
October 03, 2018 -
Narrowly avoiding a shutdown, the House and Senate will go into recess with the proposed pay raise still potentially on the chopping block.
October 03, 2018 -
President Donald Trump's pick to run the Social Security Administration says he'll take a top-to-bottom look at the agency's five-year IT modernization plan, and will reexamine its growing disability backlog.
October 02, 2018 -
The amount of hurricanes and damage resulting from the storms has hit record numbers in the last two years. USACE continues to support disaster relief efforts from recent and past hurricane seasons.
October 02, 2018 -
Overpayments and a more general lack of attention to fair labor standards are among the personnel problems uncovered by the Homeland Security Office of Inspector General
October 02, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office said the Postal Service's retiree health benefits fund has over $60 billion in unfunded liabilities.
October 02, 2018 -
Stopping an armed burglar, bridging the language barrier for a woman seeking an ambulance and coordinating rescues for Texas residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey make up just a few of the courageous acts that Postal Service letter carriers accomplished in the past year.
October 02, 2018 -
The Government Accountability Office is looking into how the State Department has responded to injury reports from employees in Cuba.
October 01, 2018 -
The Environmental Protection Agency is considering an internal reorganization that it says would better align its scientific mission, but workforce groups say the reshuffling would devalue the work of federal scientists.
October 01, 2018 -
TSA Administrator David Pekoske managed to mostly reassure lawmakers, with one major exception: they aren't pleased about the agency's decision to redact certain documents, and its refusal to turn over others in response to a subpoena.
September 27, 2018