CARES Act

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)

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…

Commentary

COVID-era contracting question continues to bedevil the government

Contracting

How the Education Department could help improve falling math scores

Management

MC1 (AW/SW) Michael D. Cole

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

Contracting

What Thrift Savings Plan participants can look forward to this year

TSP

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

Agency Oversight

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

As federal pandemic response lumbers along, the lessons learned are piling up.

Agency Oversight

Straight talk from the Marine Corps

Advice to contractors covers the general and the topical, and it needs to be clear.

Tom Temin Commentary

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

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the provision in the CARES Act that lets agencies reimburse contractors who can’t work because of the pandemic was an overwhelming success.