Agency Oversight
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The General Services Administration awarded proof-of-concepts to Amazon Business, Overstock.com and Fischer Scientific on Friday to provide agencies access to their commercial e-commerce platforms for purchases below the micro-purchase threshold of $10,000.
June 29, 2020 -
The new forecast predicts the Postal Service can weather the coronavirus pandemic better than what the agency first told congressional committees in April. Those forecasts predicted USPS would run out of cash anytime between this month and September.
June 26, 2020 -
The IRS moved and the Treasury Department rushed to get millions of payments out to the public in the week and months after Congress passed the CARES Act, but in doing so sent more than a million payments to people who have died.
June 25, 2020 -
President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the CIA’s chief watchdog is pledging independence, saying he will perform his role “in an unbiased and impartial manner, free of undue or inappropriate influences” by Trump or anyone else.
June 24, 2020 -
A defense authorization bill amendment proposal would require recipients of Defense Department grants to publicly disclose how they spend the money.
June 24, 2020 -
GSA's inspector general found the government’s landlord would have seen even better results reducing lease extensions and holdovers if not for several administrative hurdles between PBS and its tenant agencies.
June 23, 2020 -
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) is caught between Congress and the administration's requirements when it comes to the amount of data and the source of the information to collect under the $2 trillion CARES Act.
June 22, 2020 -
The Navy has upheld the firing of the aircraft carrier captain who urged faster action to protect his crew from a coronavirus outbreak
June 19, 2020 -
Agency inspectors general working under the assumption that the president can remove them for any reason could just as easily stick to routine audits of contracts and programs, rather than delve into controversial subjects.
June 19, 2020 -
Federal employees working from home largely report being more productive than when they go into the office, and while large-scale oversight efforts from the Government Accountability Office have only just started, GAO has acknowledged that it’s also seeing improvements from its own employees.
June 18, 2020 -
Patricia Collins was the first woman in the Pentagon to complete the Military Free-Fall Jumpster Course -- one of her many, many accomplishments,
June 18, 2020 -
Although the Defense contracting community has never dealt with a situation quite like the current pandemic, the Pentagon's IG says there are enough lessons from past emergencies to help minimize waste, fraud and abuse.
June 18, 2020 -
The Government Accountability Office has completed a detailed study of three private citizens and what influence they might have had on decisions made by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
June 17, 2020 -
The Special Inspector General for Pandemic Response Brian Miller was confirmed by the Senate last week -- so now we wait and see.
June 16, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Senate applauds the State Department for bringing more than 100,000 Americans home during the coronavirus pandemic.
June 16, 2020