Government Accontability Office

• Lawmakers closing ranks on a bipartisan bill to fix VA’s troubled EHR rollout

  House and Senate lawmakers are starting to close ranks on which of several EHR modernization bills has the best chance of making it through Congress.

  IT Modernization

  April 19, 2023
• Agencies get first look into the 2022 Best Places to Work rankings

  The Partnership for Public Service's list of the top 10 "Best Places to Work" large agencies is mostly unchanged, but many of the employee engagement and satisfaction scores continue to dwindle.

  Workforce

  March 29, 2023
• GSA targets underutilized property as feds telework, but agencies not giving up office space

  The Biden administration sees a major opportunity to sell office space the federal government no longer needs, now that much of the federal workforce has adapted to working from home.

  Facilities/Construction

  March 22, 2023
• USPS operational changes aren’t putting rural delivery at disadvantage, watchdog finds

  The Postal Service’s operational changes in recent years aren’t putting rural areas at a disadvantage when it comes to on-time delivery, according to a recent watchdog report.

  Agency Oversight

  January 12, 2023
• The Defense Department is urged to get a better handle on its tactical aircraft investments

  Fighter plans and attack planes are known as tactical aircraft. The armed services have a lot of them, mostly old. So old, most of them are past their services lives. Yet they are still in the inventory and the Defense Department wants to spend a hundred billion dollars to refresh the fleet. The Government Accountability Office finds, DoD needs more detailed analysis before proceeding.

  Agency Oversight

  January 11, 2023
• Congressmen want to know what agencies are doing to ensure clean water across America

  In today's Federal Newscast: Two congressmen want to know what agencies are doing to ensure clean water across America. DOJ wants agencies to provide more information in different lanugages. And the House Modernization Committee looks at the need to have a congressional Chief Data Officer.

  Federal Newscast

  November 22, 2022
• ‘Timely versus accurate’ DoD struggles shed light on cyber incident reporting challenges

  DoD and its contractors are still struggling to share timely, accurate information about cyber incidents peppering their networks.

  Defense News

  November 21, 2022
• Federal building security agency short-staffed amid rise in threats

  Federal employees and their office buildings are facing an increase in threats at a time when the agency sworn to protect them is running into challenges to fill law enforcement vacancies.

  Hiring/Retention

  October 07, 2022
• The government’s people agency has a growing task list of its own

  The Office of Personnel Management doesn't hire people to work at federal agencies. But it has a lot of influence over how agencies hire people. And it provides crucial shared services to help agencies manage their workforces. This year the Government Accountability Office added three high priority recommendations for OPM to improve things. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked about it with GAO's director of strategic issues, Michelle Sager.

  Agency Oversight

  July 20, 2022
• After Boeing 737 Max crashes, GAO looked at European standards for plane certifications

  When two Federal Aviation Administration-certified Boeing 737 Max jets crashed a few years back, it raised questions about the FAA certification process for new airplane designs. Members of Congress wanted to know if there was anything the U.S. could learn from the European Union's procedures. The Government Accountability Office compared the two.

  Agency Oversight

  July 13, 2022