CARES Act

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

The CARES Act, enacted during the pandemic, let the government reimburse contractors for employees on paid leave: Those who could not access federal work…

Contracting

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What Thrift Savings Plan participants can look forward to this year

TSP

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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)

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

Agency Oversight

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

Cybersecurity

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)

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

Big Data

Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation inspector general

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

Agency Oversight

Straight talk from the Marine Corps

Tom Temin Commentary

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

Federal Newscast

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

Last year was a good one to be a federal contractor because of the pandemic and a few other things. Federal contract spending went up by double digits.

Contracting

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

The Director of Health Care issues at the Government Accountability Office Sharon Silas discusses what the watchdog agency found.

Veterans Affairs

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)

Secret Service lending a hand in nabbing COVID relief fraudsters