Agency Oversight
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The Postal Service won’t change the hours at post offices and the agency will continue to approve overtime as needed, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said Tuesday.
August 18, 2020 -
Researchers at Veterans Affairs perform abusive experiments on cats, after their ability to use dogs was defunded, according to the White Coat Waste Project.
August 17, 2020 -
The Small Business Administration’s inspector general found the four-year effort to develop a single platform, Certify.SBA.gov, for small businesses to apply for socioeconomic contracting programs fell well short of its goals.
August 17, 2020 -
A congressional watchdog agency has found that the top two Trump administration officials in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were improperly appointed to the posts under federal law
August 14, 2020 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. Much of the controversy surrounding a possible November election by mail centers on the Post Office. Does…
August 14, 2020 -
Contractors unhappy with an award often skip agency level protests because they don't want to turn to the contracting officer who made the decision.
August 13, 2020 -
Congress appropriated trillions in response to the pandemic. A surprisingly small fraction of that money went to contracts awarded by agencies.
August 12, 2020 -
The number of open recommendations that are at least five years old grew from 80 in 2019 to 170 this year.
August 10, 2020 -
The Postal Service, weathering long-term financial challenges made worse by the coronavirus pandemic, is preparing for a record volume of mail-in ballots this November while also streamlining its operations to cut costs.
August 07, 2020 -
Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Carl Risch said the department is looking at a “return to normal operations” at passport agencies within the next six-to-eight weeks and “a much more normal processing time” for incoming passport applications.
August 07, 2020 -
Without commenting on whether ten cents per page is an excessive fee for an online system in the modern era, a federal appeals court finds the federal judiciary has been spending its surplus PACER revenue on projects the law doesn't allow.
August 06, 2020 -
Everybody loves national parks but funding from Congress has been stingy -- but last week it passed and President Trump signed a bill to change that.
August 06, 2020 -
With Congress and Trump administration still divided over the terms of the next coronavirus spending bill, top Democrats have doubled down on measures that would bolster the Postal Service ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
August 06, 2020 -
Stephen Akard announced his resignation just two days after Democrats issued subpoenas for several of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s top aides to answer questions about the shakeup in the watchdog’s office.
August 05, 2020 -
The troubled F-35 has an autonomic logistics information system -- but after 20 years of development, the system, known as ALIS, doesn't work.
August 05, 2020