Agency Oversight
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With vote-by-mail services in high demand during an extended primary election season, and with demand expected to remain elevated in November, the Postal Service has set recommendations for state and local governments to make sure each ballot gets counted.
June 03, 2020 -
Insider threats to transportation have moved front and center at the Transportation Security Administration. It's published a strategy to protect itself and the transportation sector from inside threats.
June 01, 2020 -
The move to maximum telework across federal agencies hasn’t been a painless one, and Congress wants to know just how it’s going.
May 29, 2020 -
Career managers can turn inspectors general into allies, not enemies.
May 29, 2020 -
The Justice Department is telling agencies struggling to complete Freedom of Information Act requests during the coronavirus pandemic to finish what’s possible remotely, and keep the public in the loop about delays.
May 28, 2020 -
An enterprise approach to risk management is required under the venerable OMB circular A-123. That's helped push ERM down into agency practices.
May 28, 2020 -
Could all of this have a chilling effect on the willingness of other agencies to issue unflattering reports?
May 28, 2020 -
Agencies, and Congress, are leaving tens of billions of dollars on the table by failing to address fragmentation, overlap and duplication in government programs and functions, the Government Accountability Office said.
May 27, 2020 -
HHS IG office must balance its in-depth reviews with the immediate demand for real-time analysis in the “flash reports” requested by the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
May 27, 2020 -
The Pentagon's No. 2 inspector general has resigned
May 26, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the IG Independence Act would limit the grounds a president has to remove an inspector general.
May 26, 2020 -
In todays' Federal Newscast, Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee worry the panel is failing to hold federal agencies accountable for their response to the coronavirus.
May 22, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a bipartisan bill in the Senate would fast-track hiring staff to work for the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery, who’s now one step away from confirmation.
May 21, 2020 -
A year after a critical inspector report found McKinsey and Company’s prices were 10% higher than originally proposed, GSA decided to end the firm’s schedule contract.
May 19, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, two members of Congress want the White House to save all records on the firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick.
May 18, 2020