Agency Oversight
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The Census Bureau is already applying lessons learned from the 2020 decennial count in preparing for 2030 and even 2040. For one thing, it learned how to lower costs through employee productivity, so 2020 came in nearly $2 billion under budget.
March 15, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The Veterans Affairs Department's Inspector General tells the Veterans Health Administration to strengthen background checks to avoid hiring disqualified people. The Navy wants a 4.5% budget increase next year, to $256 billion. And CISA is launching a new initiative to combat ransomware.
March 15, 2023 -
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee pressed Office of Personnel Management Director Kiran Ahuja on federal telework, hiring process reforms, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, the retirement case backlog and much more.
March 10, 2023 -
Without using the manufacturing capacity of allied nations, the United States probably cannot fill its own national security needs. One reason, according to a study by Bloomberg Government, is the apparent shortage of skilled manufacturing labor in the U.S.
March 10, 2023 -
The IRS is bringing back a former leader experienced at helping the agency overcome challenges and congressional scrutiny.
March 09, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management launches a five-pronged strategy aiming to help agencies better adapt to the increasing prevalence of hybrid work for the federal workforce.
March 08, 2023 -
Semiconductor chips have gotten all of the attention and a $50 billion subsidy from the government. But without the more prosaic Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) underneath them, chips don't do anything. PCB manufacturing has mostly moved offshore, leading to a pending bill to help the industry, as the nation focuses on the supply chain.
March 08, 2023 -
For the third time since 2014, the GSA inspector general found TTS lacked organization control leading, this time, to lies to agency customers and the Technology Modernization Fund board, finger pointing among political appointed and senior executives and $10 million in charges for services that didn’t live up to their billing.
March 07, 2023 -
Homeland Security officials this year will test the extent to which software can verify the authenticity of an ID based off just a smartphone photo and then correctly match an individual in a “selfie” to the photo ID.
March 07, 2023 -
The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service is looking to modernize the way the federal government does business — and giving agencies a status update on its goals through the end of the decade.
March 06, 2023 -
A really busy and contentious time for Congress kicks off this week when the Biden Administration releases its 2024 budget request. But that's not all.
March 06, 2023 -
It's been one year since the three-member Merit Systems Protection Board had a quorum, after several years without one. A big challenge for the board was clearing a five-year backlog of appeals cases.
March 06, 2023 -
Numerous agencies, including DHS, DoD and State, saw their backlogs jump after the public made a record number of FOIA requests last year.
March 03, 2023 -
The Biden administration is asking Congress to give federal watchdogs and prosecutors more funding — and more time — to go after billions of dollars in COVID-19 spending lost to fraudsters.
March 02, 2023 -
The departments of Agriculture, Labor, State and Veterans Affairs reported that 50% or less of their public-facing websites comply with Section 508 accessibility requirements.
March 02, 2023