Agency Oversight
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The Department of Veterans Affairs said it will take months, years in some cases, to implement needed changes to its sexual harassment policies, training and reporting structures.
July 23, 2020 -
Russ Martin, associate Treasury inspector general for tax administration, shares some results from a review of how the IRS did in distributing stimulus checks.
July 23, 2020 -
Improper payments to prisoners and the deceased amounted to 0.04% of CARES Act dollars.
July 23, 2020 -
The House-passed annual defense authorization bill includes a few notable provisions for civilian federal employees.
July 22, 2020 -
A recent review by the DOJ inspector general recommended that the DEA needs to get a better handle on its undercover money laundering operations.
July 22, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a bicameral group of Democrats say top leadership vacancies at the Federal Emergency Management Agency are unacceptable.
July 22, 2020 -
Dave Lebryk, the Treasury Department's fiscal assistant secretary, said the IRS has already recovered about 70% of the $1.6 billion in improper payments to the deceased and expects the agency to find more returned checks in its backlog of unopened mail.
July 22, 2020 -
The recently-formed agency finances projects in developing countries. Now it's come up with a whole new way to measuring effectiveness.
July 20, 2020 -
With many federal employees still on mandatory telework, USPTO’s IT leadership hasn’t slowed down the momentum of spinning up new services or replacing the agency legacy capabilities.
July 17, 2020 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, under an emergency directive, is giving agencies until 2 p.m. Friday to apply a patch released Tuesday — or a “temporary registry-based workaround” — for Windows Servers running DNS.
July 17, 2020 -
Agencies in recent years have faced a recurring dilemma: Congress can't act on time, so there's a lapse of appropriations - a partial shutdown.
July 15, 2020 -
The Postal Service has warned for years that tough decisions lie ahead when it comes to balancing its delivery service with costs.
July 15, 2020 -
The 2014 DATA Act set a new standard for government transparency by raising the bar for how much spending data agencies have to make available via public websites. But releasing more information doesn't help much if the data is unreliable.
July 14, 2020 -
For the second year, members of the Professional Services Council have scored the quality of agency procurement forecasts according to a list of attributes.
July 14, 2020 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs and its largest employee union, the American Federation of Government Employees are stuck in a standoff.
July 13, 2020