Agency Oversight
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The IRS wants to eliminate- a long standing problem; companies who are delinquent in their federal taxes, but that nevertheless received federal contracts.
October 06, 2022 -
Nicole Puri, the chief risk officer at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service in the Treasury Department and the past president of the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM), said the agency is managing operational risk as well as strategic risks.
October 04, 2022 -
After several years of vacancy, the Merit Systems Protection Board has its full complement of three members,
October 04, 2022 -
A conservation group of former employees applauds Bureau of Land Management's moving its headquarters back to DC
October 03, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The Defense Department inspector general finds major flaws in the reporting of insider threats. More than 12% of federal employees surveyed wanted to quit their jobs last year. And efforts to improve the air filtration in government buildings continue to fall short.
October 03, 2022 -
Major regulatory changes and new rules — which one agency or another deal with almost daily — require that affected parties be notified. But a notice in the Federal Register is not enough, and agencies need to do more or they risk losing in court.
September 29, 2022 -
Although never fully implemented, a new GAO report reveals two agencies that started initial steps of reclassifying positions to Schedule F.
September 29, 2022 -
Barely a month after the IRS got $80 billion to rebuild its workforce and upgrade its legacy IT, House Republican leaders are making repealing this funding their top legislative priority ahead of this November's elections.
September 23, 2022 -
The Association of Government Accountants will release its 10th annual survey of inspector generals in the coming months with a focus on the impact of the pandemic on the audit community.
September 23, 2022 -
Twice postponed launches of its big new rocket may indicate deep problems with NASA's Artemis program, as it makes plans to get back to the moon and eventually to Mars. The basic guidance the agency uses to manage Artemis may not be suited to such a complex enterprise, at least according to the Government Accountability Office.
September 21, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: A former HUD assistant inspector general is found guilty of corruption and now faces up to 80 years in prison. The Defense Department is offering two online courses on suicide. Major changes are afoot for SBA's 8(a) program. And AFGE presents its wish list for the 2023 defense authorization bill.
September 21, 2022 -
For a period of some 35 years, a million people were potentially exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, the Marines base camp in North Carolina. Since 2017, veterans from that era are presumed to have service-related illnesses from drinking that water.
September 16, 2022 -
The Hatch Act prohibits political activities by federal employees on the job. It only applies though to executive branch agencies. When the head of the administrative office of the U.S. courts enacted new rules for that agency's employees that went even further than the Hatch Act, not everyone was on board. Two employees filed a lawsuit.
September 14, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Most GSA childcare facilities did not test their drinking water, which was likely contaminated, after returning from the COVID shutdown. Bipartisan lawmakers are looking to limit the ability of some feds to trade individual stocks. And the Biden administration fills two brand-new positions to government.
September 13, 2022 -
A review by the SBA Office of Inspector General found a number of applications for Economic Injury Disaster Loans from foreign IP addresses were flagged as fraudulent, but not properly reviewed.
September 12, 2022