Management
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Jason Lee Bakke, director of Chaedrol LLC, explains how contractors can improve their oversight and processes to pay GSA its Industrial Funding Fee off schedule contracts.
May 15, 2023 -
Miller said she was unaware of any data about the success rate of these types of attacks, but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence of companies losing tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars to these scam artists.
May 12, 2023 -
In today's episode, Michael Binder interviews Robert Storch, who has been inspector general of the Department of Defense since December 2022.
May 12, 2023 -
More government will lead to taxpayer dollars stolen through fraud. However, it also means more money is needed to combat that fraud.
May 12, 2023 -
A recent Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing raised questions of integrity and the so-called revolving door between industry and the Defense Department. The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) was among the witnesses, saying there's too much industrial influence on Pentagon decisions coming from former officers and high-level civilians.
May 11, 2023 -
A pair of bills sponsored by four senior Senate Intelligence Committee members seek to add more governance, training and accountability to the government's security classification system.
May 11, 2023 -
For our May 10th show, I interviewed Transportation Security Administration Chief Human Capital Officer Jason Nelson.
May 10, 2023 -
Non-fungible digital asset. It's a term few people even heard of five years ago. Now it's the cause of an effort to figure out the best regulatory policy for these blockchain doodads.
May 10, 2023 -
The Postal Service is falling short of its goal to start turning around its financial losses this year, and reported a $2.5 billion net loss for the second quarter of fiscal 2023.
May 09, 2023 -
Union leaders have emphasized that collective bargaining agreements already in place outweigh OMB's latest telework memo, but AFGE's chapter representing HUD employees is calling for even more flexibility from agency leadership.
May 09, 2023 -
A new report from the General Services Administration's Inspector General didn't have many nice things to say about its Multiple Award Schedule’s Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) pilot.
May 09, 2023 -
The fourth report in a year about the Transactional Data Reporting pilot continues to ring the same negative notes from the inspector general while GSA officials continue to push back against that tune.
May 08, 2023 -
Michael Gifford, a senior strategist at CivicActions, offers suggestions for how the federal government can borrow ideas and concepts from other countries to make sure all citizens can access federal services.
May 05, 2023 -
The Coast Guard has long worked to boost its capabilities of operating in the Arctic, an area of increasing importance to national security. Now the Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate will fund research aimed at helping other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) components operate in the Arctic.
May 04, 2023 -
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s latest guidance outlines promising practices for federal agencies to prevent and address harassment in the workplace.
May 03, 2023