Agency Oversight
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The Government Accountability Office found the Social Security Administration needs to shore up its oversight of state medical experts responsible for making disability determinations, some staff and some contracted.
November 24, 2021 -
The bill, known as the "Strengthen the Office of Personnel Management Act," would redefine the agency's mission and responsibilities, codify the role of the director and the career chief management officer and create a new advisory council for OPM.
November 23, 2021 -
A three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found the Postal Regulatory Commission struck a careful balance last year when it allowed USPS to set mail rates higher than the pace of inflation.
November 23, 2021 -
Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support failed to meet more than 40% of the needs staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs' first implementation site had identified, the VA inspector general told Congress last week.
November 23, 2021 -
This week, Michael Binder of Graduate USA interviews Jay Lerner, inspector general of the FDIC.
November 22, 2021 -
Employees at the National Security Agency have been dealing with parking issues for some time. The Office of Inspector General took a look at the situation. IG Robert Storch joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss their findings.
November 22, 2021 -
Agencies have seen a deluge of new guidance and standards, but a top White House cyber official says it's time to execute on the EO's goals.
November 19, 2021 -
Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Michael Kubayanda told senators that the board would work with the CDO to make more USPS performance data more readily available to the public and available in machine-readable formats.
November 19, 2021 -
Vacancies jumped from 121 open positions in July 2019, when the Bureau of Land Management first announced the relocation, to 326 in March 2020, a 169% increase, according to the Government Accountability Office.
November 18, 2021 -
A group of senators and House members said "extensive issues with the FBI's current whistleblower program make the bureau one of the most difficult places" to report waste, fraud and abuse.
November 17, 2021 -
Even simplified acquisitions can get an agency tied into knots. Attorney Joseph Petrillo joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with details.
November 17, 2021 -
According to GAO’s latest survey of more than 4,000 federal managers, they’re using performance information more often than at any time since the office started the survey in 2007. Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu talked about the results with the acting director for strategic issues at the GAO, Alissa Czyz.
November 17, 2021 -
Vice Adm. Paul Thomas, deputy commandant for Mission Support at the Coast Guard, told the House Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation subcommittee that the service is investing what funds it does have in resiliency and its workforce.
November 16, 2021 -
Agency has been dealing with employees complaints about parking for more than 60 years.
November 16, 2021 -
Agency planners have been thinking hard about how you feed people on long missions, say a year to get to Mars. With the latest on a challenge competition to come up with new space cuisine, the project manager for NASA's Centennial Challenges program, Monsi Roman.
November 15, 2021