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The defense contract audit agency or DCAA found out something the hard way. If it takes too long to audit cost reimbursement support documents held by contractors - tough. The government is still responsible for those costs. The recent Armed Services Contract Board of Appeals handled that outcome..
The upcoming Sept. 30 deadline will bring another continuing resolution. And CRs don't have to spoil agency planning.
The Mississippi River has two things many rivers lack. It's got its very own commission established by Congress in 1879. And it has a sister river, the Mekong of Vietnam and Cambodia fame. The Mekong also has a four-nation commission that also includes Laos and Thailand under the auspices of the State Department since 2010, the two river commissions have had a memorandum of understanding to work together.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, does telework help or hurt diversity efforts? And was the Coast-Guard-connected couple in Hawaii in the spying business?
Services contractors look at an executive order on new contractors keeping the employees of the displaced incumbent, project labor agreements on major construction
From federal policymakers to agency implementers, we've heard a ton of talk about artificial intelligence (AI). But neither group has done nearly everything it said it wants to do to promote effective use of AI. That's one takeaway from a new report card from the Information Technology Innovation Foundation.
You might have thought psychedelic drugs went away with the Woodstock generation, but Veterans Affairs researchers are studying the question of whether psychedelics can be effective treatments for certain mental disorders.
In today's Federal Newscast: The Postal Service received mixed-grades on a cybersecurity report card. HUD and its employees' union are not seeing eye-to-eye on returning to the office. And the military just made it easier for soldiers to get a vaccine for monkeypox.
Foreign actors in many sections of the internet actively seek to deny the United States and its allies free use of the internet, even to foster civil unrest and violence.
Since the June 2021 Champlain Towers collapse a team from the National Construction Safety Team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been on the case.
The latest spending bill from Congress is not the regular appropriations for fiscal 2023. The inflation reduction bill will allot more than $80 billion to the IRS over 10 years. The DOE will also get significant funds for green energy.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, reimbursements for military housing are not keeping up with inflation, and the Combined Federal Campaign needs more leaders.
One big lesson from the COVID pandemic: you need solid data to mount an effective response. And that was one of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's biggest challenges in the early days of COVID-19.
A reskilled workforce and a continuing move towards a digital future are among the strategic imperatives laid out by the Government Publishing Office. GPO Director Hugh Halpern spoke to the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.