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Sen. Claire McCaskill, ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, requested that the Government Accountability Office assess the Army’s contracting process, including accountability and oversight.
The IRS is basing its vision for the future on incorrect assumptions about taxpayers and the services they need, said National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson. Tight budgets have squeezed the IRS so far that the agency is getting rid of more in-person customer services in favor of more online accounts.
Officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation say the agency's data breach was under control before data fell into the wrong hands, but the case serves as an important lesson that not all insider threats are malicious.
Four bills aimed at improving IRS accountability passed the House Ways and Means Committee, but not without strenuous objections.
The Government Accountability Office looked at 21 large cloud contracts across five cabinet level departments, and found only seven met all of the industry best practices for service level agreements. David Powner, GAO’s director for IT management issues, with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how GAO selected those best practices, and why agencies should be following them.
Big changes are coming to the Defense Department and the VA. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you're next.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said his agency is working to both strengthen the security around taxpayer information, while also allowing taxpayers access to their own data. And doing it on a smaller budget and with fewer IT experts.
David Hawkings, senior editor at CQ Roll Call, has spent some time digging into the Capitol Police Department's budget and found it's increased almost every year since 9/11 to $375 million this year. Hawkings tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the Capitol Police is among the biggest police agencies in America, but it has gotten relatively little oversight.
Roughly half of a congressionally appointed commission to reform the Veterans Affairs Department suggested an expansion of community care for veterans and a systematic closure of some VA medical facilities. The "strawman document" emerged as the VA pilots a few new programs to help veterans gain more control over their health care.
The Social Security Administration is pairing up with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to ensure that social security benefit recipients over the age of 90 are, in fact, still alive.
Russ Deyo, DHS’ undersecretary for management, is holding each of the department’s components accountable for specific plans, milestones and approaches that focus on root causes of employee dissatisfaction.
Leaders of R&D components of DHS detailed technological projects and innovation processes at a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee budgetary hearing.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has trouble dealing with new car technology and the agency's own technology. Susan Fleming, director of physical infrastructure issues at the Government Accountability Office, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer some insight.
Negotiations between the House and Senate VA committees over a new veterans omnibus have stalled, as the Veterans Affairs Department releases more details in its plan to change accountability procedures for its senior executives.