CARES Act

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

GAO looked at agencies’ system security plans, the results of security control assessments, remedial action plans and whether or not they followed NIST…

Cybersecurity

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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

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Straight talk from the Marine Corps

Tom Temin Commentary

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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)

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

Contracting

Economic Development Administration hits milestone in CARES Act fund distribution

Management

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

Cybersecurity

Defense Health Program facing $1.8B budget shortfall for 2021

The grouping of defense agencies are looking inward to make up for the budget gap.

Defense

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

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Treasury Department is standing up a central office to oversee COVID-19 economic relief spending.