Agency Oversight
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NARA is looking at expanding the "Capstone" email retention approach to text messages, chat and other digital forms of communications.
September 05, 2022 -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leadership recently announced the agency will undergo an overhaul to address the causes of repeated missteps during the pandemic.
September 01, 2022 -
The Government Accountability Office says the Treasury Department has made good progress on some deficiencies on financial statements, but new ones have popped up.
August 31, 2022 -
The U.S. Secret Service said Friday that it has recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic loans and is returning the money to the Small Business Administration
August 26, 2022 -
The Pentagon will set up a new center to help avoid civilian casualties in military operations around the world through better education and training and increased screening before strikes are launched.
August 25, 2022 -
Federal inspectors general are vital conduits to let Congress and the rest of us know when agencies or public officials have taken a wrong turn. But their work is quite a bit less useful when no one can read it. The house has included several measures intended to increase IG transparency,
August 25, 2022 -
Congress is considering bills that would preserve the merit-based civil service as part of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. There are at least two approaches being considered — one that originated in the House, and another that originated in the Senate.
August 23, 2022 -
Looking into enrollment numbers for the TSP mutual fund window, an upcoming GAO investigation and the latest TSP millionaires report.
August 22, 2022 -
One big lesson from the COVID pandemic: you need solid data to mount an effective response. And that was one of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's biggest challenges in the early days of COVID-19.
August 19, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a Virginia congressman demands to know if the Homeland Security Inspector General is under investigation. And the IRS is looking to expand its use of video conferences in appeals cases.
August 19, 2022 -
Back in the mid ‘90s, when the Education Department first started its current Direct Loan program for college students, the program was expected to turn a profit for the U.S. Treasury. The initial estimates were that it would bring in $114 billion over the next quarter century. Now that were here, that estimate turns out to be wrong...way wrong.
August 17, 2022 -
Public polling shows a continuing decline in Americans' trust in government. One indicator is the number of Americans who would urge their kids to pursue a government career.
August 15, 2022 -
Also in today's Federal Newscast, the Navy and the state of Hawaii join forces to clean-up the military's mess in Paradise.
August 12, 2022 -
IG offices now have the ability to use a new tagging option when publishing documents to Oversight.gov, to flag reports related to DEIA issues.
August 11, 2022 -
It’s been three years since the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act became law and agencies are using it to plan their 2024 budget requests.
August 11, 2022