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FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2020, file photo, the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. The federal Bureau of Prisons will begin allowing inmates to have visitors again in October, months after visits were suspended at the 122 federal prisons across the U.S. The visitation plan is detailed in an internal memo issued Monday, Aug. 31, and obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File) — Virus_Outbreak_Federal_Prisons_Visitation_32303

Commentary

The Bureau of Prisons and the challenges going into 2024

The BOP has huge responsibilities in the care and feeding of over 150,000 prisoners in its care and over 36,000 staff. It has an $8.7 billion annual budget and houses some of the most infamous criminals in the United States. It also houses nearly 50,000 inmates who are low and minimum-security prisoners, many of whom are eligible for earlier release due to the First Step Act.

Contracting

COVID-era contracting question continues to bedevil the government

Management

How the Education Department could help improve falling math scores

Contracting

A messy dispute caught one company for millions of dollars of government refund demands

TSP

What Thrift Savings Plan participants can look forward to this year

Agency Oversight

How to find data on millions and millions of pandemic federal funding awards

Agency Oversight

One big lesson from the COVID pandemic

Ba Le fills up a container of water at the Georgetown Community Center on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Georgetown Community Center opens its door for people in need of clean water due to the boil water notice that most Texans are experiencing. The first day Georgetown Community Center opened its doors, they had 49 different families that came in need of water. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

Facilities/Construction

How agencies scale up to oversee infrastructure grants

FILE - This March 27, 2020 file photo shows the signature of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill in Washington. Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Agency Oversight

Why the National Security Agency overpaid contractors during the height of the pandemic

Cybersecurity

GAO finds agencies mostly managed telework network security with a few holes

FILE - This May 8, 2008, file photo shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies in Philadelphia. Officials at the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service said Friday, March 12, 2021 that processing the new round of stimulus payments has already begun, with the aim of having the first payments start showing up in bank accounts this weekend. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Big Data

Pandemic oversight board to preserve data analytics tools beyond its sunset date

Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation inspector general

Agency Oversight

Hazards of self-certification and other lessons learned from federal government's pandemic response

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Tom Temin Commentary

Straight talk from the Marine Corps

FILE - This March 27, 2020 file photo shows the signature of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act after it passed in the House on Capitol Hill in Washington. Since the pandemic began, Congress has set aside trillions of dollars to ease the crisis. A joint KHN and Associated Press investigation finds that many communities with big outbreaks have spent little of that federal money on local public health departments for work such as testing and contact tracing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Federal Newscast

GAO: CARES Act provision keeping contractors afloat during pandemic showed great success

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Contracting

If you thought federal contract spending shot through the roof last year, you're right

Sharon Silas, Director of Health Care Issues at the Government Accountability Office

Veterans Affairs

Veterans Affairs only spent about half of CARES Act money so far, GAO says

U.S. Secret Service police officers stand guard on the roof in front of the the American flag as it files at half-staff above the White House in Washington, Friday, April 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Federal Newscast

Secret Service lending a hand in nabbing COVID relief fraudsters

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Federal Newscast

Though the worst is over, CISA wants agencies on guard after SolarWinds breach

Dennis Alvord serves as EDA’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Development and Chief Operating Officer

Management

Economic Development Administration hits milestone in CARES Act fund distribution

SBA

Cybersecurity

SBA cyber teams, public affairs partner to take on social media scammers

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Defense

Defense Health Program facing $1.8B budget shortfall for 2021

FILE - This May 8, 2008, file photo, shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies in Philadelphia. The Treasury Department says it has issued more than 156 million payments as part of President Joe Biden’s coronavirus relief plan. This includes 25 million payments on April 6, 2021, that were primarily to Social Security beneficiaries who hadn’t filed 2019 or 2020 tax returns.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Federal Newscast

New office in Treasury Dept will oversee COVID-19 relief spending

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Agency Oversight

Federal contractors warned to prepare for stricter oversight with new administration

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