Agency Oversight
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The Justice Department has laid out its plans to have employees return to their offices. It stresses maximum telework. But one group says actual telework policies are all over the place, depending on which office you work in.
February 17, 2022 -
DHS's privacy chief wants to make privacy less of an afterthought by designing systems with technologies to protect the confidentiality and integrity of information in the first place.
February 17, 2022 -
Government investigators say former U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke misused his position to advance a Montana development project and lied to an agency ethics official about his involvement
February 16, 2022 -
The Postal Service is laying the groundwork to track the vaccination and testing status of its workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, or any future public health emergency.
February 16, 2022 -
Agencies across the board have an enduring need for scientific and technical talent, the type of people that can be hard to find. Yet many agencies fail to use the personnel mobility program, a system that lets scientific and technical employees from nonprofits work temporarily at a federal agency.
February 16, 2022 -
This week, Michael Binder spoke with Glenn Fine, former inspector general of the departments of Justice and Defense and a nonresident fellow in the Brookings Institution Governance Studies program.
February 15, 2022 -
They say an army travels on its stomach. It also travels on spare parts. And in that regard, the Defense Department has a problem. The inspector general has found that one spare parts supplier, a company called TransDigm, received payments that resulted in nearly $21 million in excess profits.
February 15, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, House Republicans are pressing Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm on how she is abiding by the STOCK Act.
February 15, 2022 -
For employees age 40 or older, the federal workforce faces a persistent challenge addressing pay disparities among racial and gender demographics.
February 14, 2022 -
It's up to the Senate now to vote on a way to avoid a lapse in appropriations Friday, when the current continuing resolution ends. It's not exactly a route to full 2022 appropriations, but its not disaster.
February 14, 2022 -
But agencies, amid a surge in public demand to use government services digitally, as well as a rise in improper payments from COVID-19 stimulus programs, face growing pressure to make customer services easier to access, but also more secure.
February 14, 2022 -
The Biden administration's push for improved customer experience couldn't come at a better time. More people than ever are trying to access federal agencies. Yet satisfaction with the experience is at an all time low.
February 10, 2022 -
A coalition of House Democrats is joining the Biden administration in pressing the Postal Service to make a larger commitment to electric delivery vehicles in the coming years.
February 09, 2022 -
Congress back in 2010 created a loan guarantee program to run through the Commerce Department. Its purpose was to help along technological innovation an small and medium manufacturers. But the program never got started. Why not?
February 09, 2022 -
It doesn't stand still, but the government's level of service always seems to lag that of the private sector. According to Brookings Institution fellow Annelies Goger and Sha Hwang, co-founder of public agency contractor Nava, improving customer experience is essential to improving trust in government itself.
February 09, 2022