Agency Oversight
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Congressional investigators say two Border Patrol agents were fired from among 60 found to have committed misconduct for participating in a private Facebook group that mocked migrants and lawmakers
October 25, 2021 -
House fires remain the most common form of fire each year, and FEMA keeps close track of them. With some recent statistics and how the agency gathers it, acting U.S. Fire Administrator Tonya Hoover joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
October 22, 2021 -
Agency inspectors general are getting closer to gaining the authority to question former federal employees and contractors as part of their investigations.
October 21, 2021 -
The Labor Department’s CIO doesn’t report directly to the secretary or deputy secretary, and the IG raises the issue in a new audit that received a sharp response from agency leadership.
October 20, 2021 -
After looking at policies for agencies representing 90% of federal research and development grants, the Government Accountability Office has a few recommendations. For highlights, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to GAO's Candice Wright.
October 20, 2021 -
The Postal Service, ramping up its workforce for its peak holiday season, still faces a critical employee shortage as well as persistent challenges retaining new hires.
October 18, 2021 -
Contractor CGI recently won a contract from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The task is to build an application programming interface gateway.
October 15, 2021 -
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) urged the Biden administration to create the "institutional infrastructure" needed to support an executive order on improving equity within government services and step up data collection programs.
October 15, 2021 -
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives misclassified more than 90 administrative positions as law enforcement jobs — and provided special premium pay typically reserved for criminal investigators and other officers to some employees.
October 14, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is looking into pay abuse at the law enforcement agency.
October 13, 2021 -
For what auditors found and how DoD can get on track, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the director of contracting and national security acquisitions at the Government Accountability Office, Shelby Oakley.
October 13, 2021 -
GAO looked at agencies' system security plans, the results of security control assessments, remedial action plans and whether or not they followed NIST cybersecurity guidance.
October 11, 2021 -
The Department of Homeland Security is putting the collective force of its component agencies behind its latest 60-day cyber sprint focused on transportation security.
October 07, 2021 -
No one quite knows how Farmers.gov is working because USDA hasn’t followed its own rules for documenting progress on IT programs.
October 06, 2021 -
An annual survey of CDOs finds common hurdles, like workforce challenges, change management and funding make it harder to get work done.
October 06, 2021