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Auditors at the Government Accountability Office are finding such large flaws in agencies' annual financial statements they can't render an opinion on them. It's a result of persistent material weaknesses. Robert Dacey, chief accountant at the GAO, gives Federal Drive with Tom Temin a complete rundown.
The Senate is considering a series of new bills that would alter the Veterans Affairs Department's current Choice program, which lets veterans find a private care provider rather than a VA doctor. VA leaders and Congress both say the department's current program is not working.
Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott released a draft open source software policy with a goal of reducing duplicative purchases and taking advantage of industry best practices by sharing reusable source code.
The Project on Government Oversight is accusing the DoD Inspector General of “systemic weaknesses and apparent cultural aversion to whistleblowers.” DoD IG said that is just not the case.
Without a doubt, the 2016 presidential transition is the top priority for the Office of Government Ethics this year. OGE Director Walter Shaub said his agency has more training courses and guides, as well as an electronic financial disclosure filing system, to help ethics officers prepare.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told the chairmen of two Senate financial committees it fixed an "isolated coding error" in its retirement planning calculator, but those senators said many questions remain unanswered.
Nearly half of the firms approved by the Internal Revenue Service to provide free online tax filing services have received a failing grade from a cybersecurity watchdog organization.
The Office of Management and Budget’s new draft policy recognizes the data center consolidation and optimization initiative must fold in several ongoing priorities — from infrastructure and systems modernization, to cybersecurity, cloud first, and the greening of the government — to be more effective.
NASA doesn't quite measure up on the project management front, according to the Government Accountability Office. Christina Chaplain, GAO's director of acquisition and sourcing management, fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
The Small Business Administration is trying to institutionalize accountability across the government for meeting small business contracting goals as well as answer critics by increasing the amount of “eligible” procurement dollars.
The Merit Systems Protection Board processed nearly 30,000 cases in fiscal 2015, a 63 percent increase over 2014, according to an annual report.
Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform criticized the General Services Administration for its inability to accurately track the inventory and status of donated surplus firearms to local law enforcement agencies.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed a bill on March 1 that aims to keep agencies from putting employees accused of misconduct on administrative leave indefinitely.
The Office of Personnel Management released the 2015 Federal Executive Board report on March 1, detailing the successes of FEBs across the country in workforce development, emergency preparedness and community outreach.