Agency Oversight
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Guest writer Wayne Abba, a retired DoD employee says the optimal balance between regulation and self-reliant industry is elusive, with the pendulum swinging between “insight” and “oversight.”
June 26, 2018 -
Seventeen years after the Defense Department first started development on the F-35 fighter jet, officials are ready to move the system into full-rate production.
June 25, 2018 -
As the Veterans Affairs Department tries to solve staffing problems, the department’s inspector general finished its first-ever examination of what the workforce shortfalls look like at a local level.
June 25, 2018 -
The backlog of security clearances in the federal government makes it harder to perform classified work, while the lack of a cyber doctrine makes it harder to respond to cyber attacks without risking escalation.
June 25, 2018 -
Some agency leaders have so far promised to remain transparent as the Trump administration attempts to make good on its reorganization proposals.
June 22, 2018 -
The Trump administration plans to tackle the federal shortage of cybersecurity professionals include a new cybersecurity hiring system, a cybersecurity reservist program, and a plan to reskill current federal employees while improving the pipeline for new cyber talent.
June 21, 2018 -
Federal real estate is not immune from the White House's new comprehensive governmentwide reorganization plan. The proposals aim to speed up sales process for offloading surplus property and create a permanent building project fund.
June 21, 2018 -
The federal government funds scientific research to the tune of billions of dollars a year. Once in a while, researchers commit scientific fraud.
June 21, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, over 30 veterans service organizations asked Senate and House Veterans Affairs leadership to help secure specific funding for the VA MISSION Act.
June 21, 2018 -
Lawmakers want to know what the Health and Human Services Department is doing with its cybersecurity coordination center, but HHS isn't volunteering much information.
June 20, 2018 -
On this week's episode of Women of Washington, Gigi Schumm welcomed Mischel Kwon of MKACyber, who created her company as a consulting firm to help "improve security operations for enterprises and U.S. federal government agencies."
June 20, 2018 -
For a department with detailed policy for just about everything, the Defense Department sometimes fails to back up its policies with oversight
June 20, 2018 -
How many members of Congress have read the nearly 600-page report from the Justice Department inspector general? That's hard to say.
June 19, 2018 -
HHS' Office of Inspector General is giving its agents on-the-ground a chance to tell their stories, in their own words.
June 18, 2018 -
The president and CEO of the Professional Services Council said Congress will need to pass additional legislation to appropriate funding.
June 18, 2018