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The Air Force has been busily trimming its headquarters staff, but the Government Accountability Office says it's been doing so without enough information. Andrew Von Ah, GAO’s acting director for Defense Capabilities and Management, talked with Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Two senators are urging the Office of Personnel Management to share details about the progress — or lack thereof — for the National Background Investigations Bureau. The NBIB is expected to be operational by October 2016.
Members of the Clinton-Kaine and Trump-Pence transition teams met with Obama administration officials on Aug. 25 to discuss a host of topics, including an overview of agency planning efforts, the General Services Administration-led transition team support, emergency preparedness, personnel onboarding processes and upcoming milestones.
Earlier this summer, a team of FBI and Health and Human Services investigators completed a long investigation that snared 301 people trying to bilk Medicare out of $900 million. Caryl Bryzmialkiewicz, the chief data officer and assistant inspector general at HHS, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how they used data to find the culprits.
Immature technologies can sink an otherwise carefully planned program. That's why the Government Accountability Office is preparing a guide to help program and acquisition people evaluate the maturity of technology before they get stuck with it. Dr. Tim Persons, chief scientist at GAO, talked about the new guide on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
A new report from the Office of Personnel Management found interns, recent college graduates and Presidential Management Fellows are staying on with the government at a higher rate. Agencies are appointing more veterans, more minorities and providing better mentoring and training opportunities to new employees.
Michael Roark, DoD's assistant inspector general for contract management and payments, joined Pentagon Solutions to offer his insight on using vendor past performance in awarding federal contracts.
Federal agencies could soon face a new governmentwide guidance on how they respond to Freedom of Information Act requests, following a meeting in September.
Vendor past performance is a big factor in awarding federal contracts. Or it should be. It's a smart practice and at the Defense Department, it's also a requirement. That's why the DoD inspector general looked at 56 Army contracts awarded by five Army contracting shops to see whether the Army was consistent in evaluating past performance. Michael Roark, DoD's assistant inspector general for contract management and payments, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with the results.
Even after transitioning four systems to shared services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development still doesn't have what it needs. All this is documented in the latest study from the Government Accountability Office. Valerie Melvin, director of Information Management and Technology Resources issues at GAO, shares more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Congress handed the White House and Treasury a job back in 2014: Establish a new reporting system for agency spending that would make it easier for people to see and anaylze for themselves, how the goverment spends $1 trillion every year. But the Data Act has proved difficult to implement, as documented in two recent studies from the Government Accountability Office. Paula Rascona, director of financial management and assurance issues at the GAO. joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
An Interior Department Inspector General report said the agency's access and encryption standards conform to National Institute of Standards and Technology requirements from 2013.
When it comes to presidential transition plans at federal agencies, career federal employees say their managers aren't doing enough to keep them in the loop.
A majority of federal recruiters, contractors and agencies say they've using signing bonuses as an incentive to attract new, qualified candidates with security clearances to beat out a competitive market, according to a new survey from ClearanceJobs.com.