Sen. Claire McCaskill, ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, requested that the Government Accountability Office assess the Army’s contracting process, including accountability and oversight.
DoD says its “conservative” estimates show that it is paying to maintain 22 percent more military base infrastructure than it can put to practical use.
Renee Johnson, president of the Federal Managers Association, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
Chris Geldart, director of the District of Columbia's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, joins host Derrick Dortch to discuss lessons learned from the 2017 snowstorm and the daylong Metro shutdown. April 15, 2016
The IRS is basing its vision for the future on incorrect assumptions about taxpayers and the services they need, said National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson. Tight budgets have squeezed the IRS so far that the agency is getting rid of more in-person customer services in favor of more online accounts.
Officials at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation say the agency's data breach was under control before data fell into the wrong hands, but the case serves as an important lesson that not all insider threats are malicious.
Staff members of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington took their taste buds on a trip through time recently, as they tried out recipes from 1950s-era cookbooks during a potluck lunch.
Four bills aimed at improving IRS accountability passed the House Ways and Means Committee, but not without strenuous objections.
A congressional authority to hire 1,000 new cybersecurity professionals is prompting the Homeland Security Department, along with the Defense Department and Office of Personnel Management, to develop non-traditional ways to recruit and retain new talent.
Director James Comey announced to staff that Gordon Bitko has been chosen to be the new CIO.
The Government Accountability Office looked at 21 large cloud contracts across five cabinet level departments, and found only seven met all of the industry best practices for service level agreements. David Powner, GAO’s director for IT management issues, with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about how GAO selected those best practices, and why agencies should be following them.
For too long, the budget and appropriations process hampered agencies and their ability to buy and modernize legacy IT systems, Federal CIO Tony Scott said. The Office of Management and Budget is submitting its proposal to Congress for a $3.1 billion IT modernization fund.
Each year, the Defense Department awards grants to some of the top researchers and engineers, who are known as National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows. Melissa Flagg, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for research, and chemist Chad Mirkin of Northwestern University, a faculty fellow specializing in nanotechnology, talked about the program on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
John Hill, the Bureau of Fiscal Service’s assistant commissioner for payments and chief disbursing officer, said agencies are getting ahead of the OMB deadline to move to electronic invoice processing by 2018 by moving to the Invoice Processing Platform (IPP).
Big changes are coming to the Defense Department and the VA. Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you're next.