Agency Oversight
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Faced with persistent delays, USPS is building a dashboard to give its biggest customers regular status updates on facilities and on-time metrics for mail.
February 03, 2021 -
Implementation of the CARES Act and vaccine distribution has been rocky. We got a look at the latest assessment from the Government Accountability Office's managing director for health care issues Nicole Clowers.
February 03, 2021 -
Agency financial staffs have to account for everything down to the penny. So how'd they do in the past year while dealing with the pandemic?
February 02, 2021 -
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is undergoing a change in leadership and makeup as the Biden administration takes over. Tom Temin checked in with the former chairman, and a commissioner through 2022, Janet Dhillon.
February 01, 2021 -
The Army is focusing on data accuracy as it prepares to move the rest of its uniformed workforce into its centralized HR IT system, known as IPPS-A.
February 01, 2021 -
The government seemed off guard when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit US shores. Now a bipartisan commission which warned of the need for strong biological defense plans back in 2015, recommends an "Apollo" plan for the next one.
January 29, 2021 -
Of the $2.6 trillion in emergency pandemic spending Congress authorized last spring, federal agencies received over $82 billion for program administration and oversight.
January 29, 2021 -
This week, Michael Binder spoke with Tammy Whitcomb, USPS' third Inspector General, who was appointed in 2018.
January 28, 2021 -
Amelia Strauss, a policy adviser at Demand Progress, has studied the strengths and shortcomings of the Capitol Hill Police since way before the riots.
January 28, 2021 -
As the Biden administration gets up and running, the president's pick to run the State Department sees an opportunity to revitalize its workforce.
January 26, 2021 -
When the Government Accountability Office releases its summary of work by its bid protest adjudication unit, it includes the number of cases decided using alternative dispute resolution.
January 25, 2021 -
The Supreme Court has brought an end to lawsuits over whether Donald Trump illegally profited off his presidency
January 25, 2021 -
The riots and the inauguration behind it, Congress has barely settled into the next session. With only a few bills actually introduced, the Senate is mainly concerned with the Biden administration confirmations for the moment.
January 25, 2021 -
The memos underscore the Trump administration’s skepticism with agency performance data requirements, but now it's to the Biden administration to decide how agencies gather and use this information.
January 25, 2021 -
The new secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, is giving his senior leaders two weeks to send in reports on sexual assault prevention programs in the military.
January 23, 2021