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Right before the fifth anniversary of FITARA, VA gave its chief information officer the control over all IT spending across departments, leaving just four other CIOs without the same clout.
Amendments and political concerns are likely to hold up budgetary talks for next year. Bloomberg Government Editorial Director Loren Duggan joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the latest.
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.
The National Defense Strategy stresses the possibility of high intensity warfare with peer nations. But do the Defense Department's spending priorities reflect the need to modernize its forces such that it could defeat those nations?
What a year to be director of the Congressional Budget Office. No one imagined what would soon strike the country.
Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations faces a $400 million partial budget shortfall before the year ends. The National Treasury Employees Union said it's concerned field officers could face furloughs without additional appropriations.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said he will help the Postal Service develop a business operating model that will allow it to meet its universal service obligation and put it on a “trajectory for success.”
A surge in package revenue from April has led to the top Republicans in the House and Senate oversight committees to ask USPS to reassess their projections.
The House is starting to turn its attention to some ordinary business, namely crafting appropriations bills for the 2021 fiscal year.
The Pentagon says it's not resisting oversight but also did not say when officials will appear on the Hill.
Though the Department of Veterans Affairs over-projected the impact the coronavirus pandemic would have on the veterans population, the agency said it's preparing for potential "rebound" in the fall.
The Postal Service Board of Governors lost its quorum this week, with Deputy Postmaster General Ron Stroman stepped down, but the Trump administration has two nominees for the board in the pipeline.
The Government Accountability Office's latest report on government waste on overlapping and duplicative programs was just released. Jessica Lucas-Judy, the GAO's director for strategic issues, detailed the latest report's findings on an episode of the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Pandemic response has acted like a pressure test for federal IT systems and related modernization funding.