Agency Oversight
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Some challenges from the pandemic require new solutions. The pandemic has also come with its own unique workload for GAO.
October 21, 2020 -
Defense contractors should pay close attention to two developments. An update on payments to contractors, and a review of how DoD spent its pandemic money.
October 21, 2020 -
The Open Government Data Act calls on agencies to make their data publicly available, and for OMB to track it. Some of it isn't happening says the Government Accountability Office.
October 21, 2020 -
Auditors found on-time delivery of first-class mail fell by more than 10% in July, directly corresponding” with the timeline of when USPS started reducing late and extra trips between mail processing plants and post offices.
October 21, 2020 -
Federal contractors can continue unconscious bias programs and still meet the demands of the president's recent executive order on diversity and inclusion training, Labor Department says, as long as programs don't touch on "white fragility" or "white privilege."
October 20, 2020 -
Federal News Network reviewed the track records and campaign policies for President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Here's where they stand on the issues important to federal employees, including pay, benefits and government oversight.
October 19, 2020 -
Just when you think things can't get worse, consider that the Bureau of Prisons is facing. A growing threat of surveillance of its facilities, and the delivery of contraband to prisoners, all from drones.
October 19, 2020 -
NASA has been busy on a program to use the moon as a launch pad to Mars. It will spend a lot of money to do so. The agency wanted to get an idea of the economic impact of this program.
October 15, 2020 -
The Director of GAO’s Financial Markets and Community Investment team, Bill Shear, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what it's found so far.
October 14, 2020 -
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can end census field operations early, in a blow to efforts to make sure minorities are properly counted in the crucial once-a-decade tally
October 14, 2020 -
One particular White House memorandum issued a month ago didn't get a lot of notice. But some think it should have.
October 08, 2020 -
The agency for much of this year has balanced conducting an extended tax filing season with sending more than 160 million payments worth $270 billion in pandemic stimulus funding across the country.
October 08, 2020 -
The ruling by the three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was a split decision for the Trump administration and a coalition of civil rights groups and local governments that had challenged the administration’s 2020 census schedule.
October 07, 2020 -
Nearly 700 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency said they have no confidence in leadership's ability to keep them safe during the pandemic. They're asking to continue telework until an effective vaccine is available.
October 07, 2020 -
The State Department has been working to establish a new cybersecurity bureau to work with other agencies. Only it hasn't exactly told them what it's up to and that could lead to all sorts of problems.
October 07, 2020