Agency Oversight
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National Taxpayer Advocate has some simple, straightforward steps for the IRS to get past its persistent service troubles.
July 06, 2021 -
Federal Drive with Tom Temin got the latest congressional outlook from WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller.
July 06, 2021 -
House Democrats and Republicans are telling the Postal Service to push a price increase on its mail products from the end of this summer to at least January 2022.
July 02, 2021 -
The FBI has opened more than two dozen grand jury investigations this year alone related to federal contracting fraud.
July 02, 2021 -
The Department of Homeland Security is moving ahead with plans to build its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency a new headquarters on a consolidated DHS campus.
July 01, 2021 -
The ongoing ransomware attacks have everybody spooked. Congress and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency are both contemplating ways to get industry to do something they've supposedly been doing for years.
July 01, 2021 -
Prisons and detention facilities, in general, had some of the toughest challenges getting through the pandemic.
July 01, 2021 -
Depending on which polls you believe, what publications you read, and what radio/TV outlets you follow, many Americans are dying to get back to the office. By the same token, many say they would stay home.
July 01, 2021 -
The Biden administration is expecting agencies to back up future budget requests with data and program performance metrics --- or at least provide a plan to gather this information.
June 30, 2021 -
Federal Drive with Tom Temin got the latest from Shelby Oakley, the director of contracting and national security acquisitions at the Government Accountability Office.
June 30, 2021 -
The Office of Management and Budget set a 2025 deadline for agencies to move at least 80% of all IP assets to Internet Protocol version 6.
June 29, 2021 -
Workhorse alleged the USPS vehicle award recipient submitted a prototype vehicle “entirely different” than the one selected for production, and that the winning design “skipped the prototype phase altogether.”
June 29, 2021 -
The Postal Service is pursuing a new service standard that would slow delivery of about a third of small, lightweight packages.
June 28, 2021 -
Facilities management contracts sound like mundane things. But they're expensive, and they require no less oversight than any other type of contract.
June 25, 2021 -
The Department of Homeland Security set out in 2016 to replace its facial and fingerprint recognition system. But little has gone right for the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology program.
June 23, 2021