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First Look

More House appropriators target federal telework, office space

The 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill includes language specifically targeting federal telework reporting requirements.

Congress

Why DoD has so much trouble delivering new weapons to the front lines

Defense

GSA

Individual desks that can be moved to create collaboration spaces in GSA’s new Workplace Innovation Lab at the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy GSA)

GSA gets a refreshed set of recommendations for dealing with real property

Leasing/Property Management

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Centralized FEHB database key to OPM cost savings, GAO says

Open Season

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Why the government should use more shared services to reduce costs

Shared Services

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Federal duplication and overlap: same story, bigger numbers

Management

Success comes from ‘all the wood behind one arrowhead’

Federal Report

Internal financial control problems can afflict agencies large and small

Financial Management

Amid crime surge, USPS law enforcement relying on ‘outdated’ data to justify staffing

Agency Oversight

Congress shows concern for healthcare cyber attacks

Cybersecurity

3 promising pockets of success in Best Places to Work

Federal Report

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She brought diversity to an under-represented group of dummies

Transportation safety in the United States has grown safer, thanks in part to work A GAO superstar. She’s overseen work in crash test dummies preventing…

Agency Oversight

Coast Guard still struggling with major acquisition programs

The Coast Guard’s biggest programs, the Offshore Patrol Cutter and the Polar Security Cutter are years behind schedule and billions of dollars over budget.

Defense

Looking ahead to the no-surprise, likely-late 2025 federal spending bills

Budget

It is budget season on Capitol Hill and agency leaders are busy defending their 2025 spending plans in front of the appropriations committees.