Agency Oversight
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In today's Federal Newscast: GAO audits another big federal program with big fraud potential. The Defense Department has a new plan to manage its satellite communications. And lawmakers reintroduce legislation to equalize Social Security benefits for federal retirees.
January 19, 2023 -
The Agriculture Department has restored staffing levels after attrition following 2019 research facility relocations, but the new workforce has overall less job experience and is less racially diverse.
January 19, 2023 -
To keep patent disputes out of the courts, Congress formed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board a few years back in the America Invents Act. A survey of patent judges conducted by the Government Accountability Office came up with a disturbing finding.
January 18, 2023 -
Percipient.AI alleges NGA and prime contractor CACI are ignoring a law requiring agencies to buy commercially available products.
January 13, 2023 -
The Postal Service’s operational changes in recent years aren’t putting rural areas at a disadvantage when it comes to on-time delivery, according to a recent watchdog report.
January 12, 2023 -
Fighter plans and attack planes are known as tactical aircraft. The armed services have a lot of them, mostly old. So old, most of them are past their services lives. Yet they are still in the inventory and the Defense Department wants to spend a hundred billion dollars to refresh the fleet. The Government Accountability Office finds, DoD needs more detailed analysis before proceeding.
January 11, 2023 -
The IRS, for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, will be in a better position to improve its performance than in the years prior, according to an agency watchdog.
January 11, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management has established a verification process for adding new family members to FEHB enrollees’ plans, but the Government Accountability Office said more still needs to be done.
January 10, 2023 -
For every would-be immigrant to the United States, there is a government form. Or several forms. A recent count of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services forms shows astonishing growth in the number and length of forms.
January 10, 2023 -
A procurement management review helps defense agencies develop better systems for handling contract paperwork.
January 09, 2023 -
The Postal Service, geared up to handle a higher volume of election mail since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, delivered mail-in ballots last year more quickly than it did in 2020.
January 09, 2023 -
So-called black swan events seem to be happening in flocks. The pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, earthquakes and floods. For government, it all adds up to the need for resilience and preparation.
January 05, 2023 -
DOJ's legal opinion protects USPS employees from facing legal consequences in states that have restricted abortion since the Supreme Court's ruling last summer.
January 04, 2023 -
In doing economic analyses leading to changes in federal benefits, agencies are obligated to do them a certain way. During the pandemic, the Agriculture Department redid an index resulting in a big boost in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The Government Accountability Office finds, USDA didn't quite proceed properly.
January 04, 2023 -
The Republican-led House is looking at opportunities to eliminate duplicative federal agencies and programs, as well as defund the IRS.
January 03, 2023