Reorganization

DeJoy rebuffs USPS regulator considering more ‘proactive’ role in postal oversight

The Postal Service’s financial losses are deepening, and more than double what the agency expected so far this fiscal year.

Workforce

Dissatisfied with OPM’s data, Republicans ask individual agencies for telework details

Workforce

OPM’s new approach to modernizing retirement services is all about small bites

IT Modernization

FILE - Large Icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland, Aug. 16, 2019. The Biden administration said Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, that it will upgrade its engagement with the Arctic Council and countries with an interest in a region that's rapidly changing due to climate change. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

It might be frozen, but the Arctic is not locked down

Technology

ODNI

OMB’s return-to-office memo offers ‘reset’ for federal employees and their customers

Workforce

FILE - Marine Corps Sgt. Justin Russell, a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, section chief with Kilo Battery, 2nd Battalion, 14th Marines looks out over a firing range at Fort Stewart, Ga. during a training exercise, Saturday, June 13, 2015. The HIMARS systems supplied by the U.S. and similar M270 provided by Britain have significantly bolstered the Ukrainian army's precision strike capability. (Corey Dickstein/Savannah Morning News via AP, File)

Does the Marines new modernization plan go too far? One of its former commandants thinks so

Defense

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

FILE - In this April 5, 2009 file photo, the Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in Washington. A government audit finds that more than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to police. The Health and Human Services inspector general's office faults Medicare for failing to enforce a federal law that requires nursing homes to immediately notify police. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Why Health and Human Services has to fix a fundamental responsibility

Agency Oversight

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. To enact President Joe Biden’s expansive domestic agenda this year, Democrats have mapped out a convoluted legislative maze. The party wants to push the new president's multitrillion-dollar plans for supercharging federal infrastructure, climate change and social programs through a Congress in which they have only paper-thin majorities. GOP opposition is certain to be solid. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

That new federal regulatory agenda has generated opposition

Reorganization

Private equity makes big play for government services companies

Contracting

The biggest federal employee union expands its international presence

Workforce

IRS plans for 20,000 new hires by end of FY 2024 to replace aging workforce

Hiring/Retention

Justice is urged to tighten up its program to keep former convicts from returning to prison

A persistent problem for the federal Bureau of Prisons is the rate at which former convicts come back. 45% of released inmates end up re-arrested within…

Workforce

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What one longtime government watchdog group recommends for the 118th Congress

Barely two months old, the 118th Congress is getting advice from all over. For decades, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) has issued a list of…

Congress

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE seal, over hand holding credit card and US Capitol building on money texture, partial graphic

In the post-pandemic era, the government is still perfecting its bio-responses

Agency Oversight

Given everything that happened in the pandemic of 2020, one would think the government would have learned a thing or two about bio responses. It has learned a lot, actually. But there is more work to do, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).