Agency Oversight
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Without a chief management officer, the Pentagon’s efforts for future business management should include enough authority and resources to succeed.
August 22, 2023 -
Thomas Brandt, the chief risk officer at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, said the upcoming Association of Federal Enterprise Risk Management summit and survey will provide the latest snapshot on how agencies are doing in managing and mitigating risks.
August 22, 2023 -
For several years, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued recommendations for reforming the Capitol Police.
August 22, 2023 -
The stability of the nation's electrical grid depends in part on large power transformers. The size of small houses, these transformers are in short supply and they take a long time to build. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the Energy Department could help secure this important link in the electricity supply chain.
August 16, 2023 -
Hundreds of thousands of federal employees get their paychecks issued by the National Finance Center, which is operated out of New Orleans by the Agriculture Department. The whole place is in danger of meltdown because of staffing, budget, technology and even storm damage problems.
August 16, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The recent Chinese hack of a Microsoft vulnerability prompts DHS to step-up its analysis of all threats to cloud environments. The Postal Service is launching a new initiative to address declines in mail volume. And all those opinions on telework might be wrong.
August 14, 2023 -
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday that “more aggressive cost reductions to operations” are needed to keep USPS’ long-term financial goals within reach.
August 08, 2023 -
The human remains of recently deceased individuals often require transporting over long distances. In the case of cremated remains, they often go via the Postal Service. And the Postal Office of Inspector General has found, USPS needs to improve some of its procedures for handling them.
August 04, 2023 -
The Postal Service is laying the foundation for electric vehicles to make up a majority of its fleet in less than a decade, a plan that puts the agency well ahead of the Biden administration’s green government goals.
August 03, 2023 -
OIRA's latest directive tells agencies to deepen their interactions with the public on regulations, as it seeks to reduce government paperwork burdens.
July 19, 2023 -
Thanks to that extensive survey by the Government Accountability Office, we know just how empty federal offices really are. None of them is more than half full. That fact has depressed the market for certain commodities a lot of vendors counted on each year as a kind of annuity.
July 18, 2023 -
Warner says passport backlog ‘not sustainable,’ as State Dept aims for pre-pandemic processing timesSen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) says the current wait times for passports are “not sustainable," and urged the bureau to take more aggressive steps to address a major backlog.
July 14, 2023 -
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), chairman of the Financial Services and General Government subcommittee, said the debt ceiling caps required cuts to capital budget accounts and the Technology Modernization Fund didn’t make the cut.
July 13, 2023 -
17 of 24 agency headquarters offices are at or below one-quarter of full capacity, the Government Accountability Office found in preliminary findings from 2023 data.
July 13, 2023 -
The Senate’s version of the 2024 defense authorization bill has a provision to bring back the previously eliminated position of DoD chief management officer.
July 12, 2023