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Remember the CARES Act, enacted at the height of the pandemic? Among other things, it let agencies reimburse contractors to pay employees unable to work at an approved federal site or to telework. At the National Security Agency, lack of controls led to millions of dollars in improper payments under the CARES Act.
The Postal Service handed out millions of dollars in employee awards in a program that lacked solid controls. People nominated one another and then voted on whether they got the money. A few people even approved their own bonuses.
Resilience, innovation and employee engagement are priorities for OPM Director Kiran Ahuja to position the federal workforce as a model employer.
The Biden administration is calling on agencies to improve customer experience across government, but former federal officials say a chief customer officer and scorecard are needed to track and encourage progress.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ backlog has nearly 5.2 million cases and approximately 8.5 million cases are pending, according the agency's Ombudsman Phyllis Coven.
The IRS is rounding the corner on its pandemic-era backlog of tax returns.
The reforms come after unpublished reports showed cases of sexual harassment, domestic violence and other misconduct being overlooked at DHS law enforcement components.
The bill, if passed, would cease all of the Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection’s ongoing investigations of whistleblower retaliation and the Office of Special Counsel would take on the workload.
GAO doesn't opine on whether Huntsville was the right or wrong decision. But the office says the Air Force made some fundamental missteps
A whistleblower program at the Internal Revenue Service that pays tipsters a portion of the money they help recover saw a slump in payouts last year.
DHS gets the most FOIA requests out of any federal agency, and most of them are related to immigration records.
We now know, with ever-mounting evidence, that pandemic relief spending resulted in hundreds of billions of dollars in wasted spending. The same could happen with infrastructure spending unless agencies tighten up their oversight.
Former OMB Director Russ Vought and current president of the Center for Renewing America, sent a letter to OMB detailing why he believes the current approach to implementing the March 2021 executive order would put federal employees in jeopardy of breaking the law.
The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) has been doling out money to agencies for special projects since 2018. The first cohort of projects were supposed to show they would be able to produce enough savings to pay back the TMF.