Agency Oversight
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This week, Michael Binder spoke with Michael Missal, who has been Inspector General for the Department of Veterans Affairs since 2016.
March 04, 2021 -
The Government Accountability Office has released its biennial list of high-risk federal programs. With some of what goes into establishing the list, the head of the GAO, Comptroller General Gene Dodaro.
March 04, 2021 -
Homeland Security handed out 26 grants to state and local governments to combat violent extremism. But they failed to document the criteria for the awards, according to the Government Accountability Office.
March 03, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is reminding servicemembers and DoD employees about the ethical values of the department.
March 03, 2021 -
In the latest biennial update on Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office removed DoD real property issues from its High Risk List. But DoD is still solely responsible for five of the 19 matters remaining on the list.
March 03, 2021 -
Federal human capital challenges are the root cause behind two-thirds of the broad topics on the Government Accountability Office's biennial high-risk list. And while GAO removed one program from the list, some areas have regressed.
March 02, 2021 -
New chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee could help break the 20-year IT modernization blockade.
March 02, 2021 -
Incomes, employment, economic growth might be on the rise and a variety of vaccines are getting out into the market. But that didn't stop the House from passing a nearly $2 trillion stimulus bill.
March 01, 2021 -
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is telling the military services to stand up new violence prevention workforces, identify "high risk" bases and assess their own compliance with existing policies meant to stop sexual assault.
March 01, 2021 -
The IRS is bringing more employees back to the office to process tax returns, open mail and make sure eligible Americans receive their Economic Impact Payments.
February 25, 2021 -
Wherever they operate in the world, the armed services rely on contractors for all sorts of support from fuel delivery to housing.
February 25, 2021 -
In the wake of the SolarWinds breach, the Senate Intelligence Committee turned to industry for recommendations on how to ensure that kind of incident doesn’t happen again.
February 24, 2021 -
The Postal Service, faced with unacceptable delays delivering mail and packages, is “evaluating all service standards” as part of a 10-year business plan.
February 24, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, officials at the Justice Department are sending a warning to government contractors, they will be turning up the False Claims heat on cybersecurity fraud.
February 24, 2021 -
Freedom of Information Act requests are on the rise. Rising faster are instances of federal agencies turning them down.
February 24, 2021