Agency Oversight
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Despite fines, investigation and heavy criticism, the Atlantic Diving Supply received a slot on a $33 billion, 10-year deal from the Defense Logistics Agency, for which only small businesses were supposed to qualify.
May 21, 2021 -
The National Archives and Records Administration's National Personnel Records Center has a backlog of more than 500,000 requests and 400,000 records that need refiling. The agency estimates it will take two years to resolve the backlog without extra help.
May 20, 2021 -
While President Joe Biden has proposed increased IRS spending by $80 billion over the next 10 years, the long-term nature of workforce planning and IT modernization requires a commitment to steady budget increases.
May 20, 2021 -
The federal arbitrator recently stopped the Social Security Administration from moving ahead on a partial labor contract with the Association of Administrative Law Judges.
May 20, 2021 -
The best shot for Congress to pass comprehensive postal reform legislation just get better, with a bipartisan coalition of 20 senators introducing companion legislation to a bill soon headed for a House vote.
May 20, 2021 -
The House is considering new legislation in effort to reform VA's beleaguered Office of Accountability and Whistleblower Protection, while the Senate is hopeful new political leadership might "right the ship."
May 19, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, House and Senate lawmakers seek to overturn a ban on the Postal Service shipping alcohol to households.
May 19, 2021 -
The Director of Health Care issues at the Government Accountability Office Sharon Silas discusses what the watchdog agency found.
May 19, 2021 -
The federal government spends more on grants each year than it does on procurement. Yet procurement seems to get the constant reform attention.
May 19, 2021 -
GAO is looking beyond the pandemic to scale up its cloud capabilities and empower the emerging tech oversight work through its Innovation Lab.
May 18, 2021 -
Lots of agencies are hearing alerts from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Hunt and Incident Response Program to help network defenders find indicators of compromise.
May 18, 2021 -
The United States will likely be involved in Iraq at some level for a long time. It still has contracting going on via the State Dept. Recently State's Office of Inspector General looked at whether contracting activity was properly staffed to ensure oversight. For more, the Federal Drive turned to the director of the OIG's office of audits, Mike Vennemann.
May 17, 2021 -
A careful examination of DoD's use of consortiums for other transaction agreements found the Pentagon doesn't have a clear picture of its billions in OTA spending, who the recipients are, and what it's getting for those investments.
May 17, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the watchdog for the Office of Personnel Management says the agency didn't do enough to inform its employees of positive or suspected COVID-19 cases last year.
May 14, 2021 -
The 2021 Postal Service Reform Act has support from Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and Republicans on the committee. Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) are cosponsors of the bill.
May 13, 2021