Government Accountability Office
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The top Republican on the Senate Small Business Committee is calling for higher standards for federal small business contracting goals.
May 04, 2023 -
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency picked a systems integrator for a computer vision project. The integrator, CACI, started to develop a proprietary function that a commercial company already offered. You can guess what happened.
May 03, 2023 -
he Bureau of Prisons, an agency of the Justice Department, made two highly visible lists within couple of weeks. It placed at the very bottom of the list of Best Places to Work in the Federal Government, meaning its employees rank it as the worst place. And, it joined the three dozen other programs on the Government Accountability Office's High Risk List. For why it made the High Risk List, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with GAO's Director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues, Gretta Goodwin.
May 03, 2023 -
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee raised concerns over OPM's role as both regulator and provider of talent acquisition systems, saying the dual position gives the agency an unfair advantage.
May 01, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Newly introduced legislation would give FEHB participants more coverage for some assisted reproductive treatments. Two deadly helicopter crashes lead the Army to hold an aviation-safety stand down. And GAO gets a new CIO next week.
May 01, 2023 -
22 of the 37 items on GAO’s list of vulnerable federal programs and broad government challenges stem from issues of mission-critical skills gaps in the federal workforce.
April 26, 2023 -
The Government Accountability Office denied a protest by Peraton over the Air Force’s award to CACI in December.
April 26, 2023 -
Throughout the pandemic, citizens might have suspected that components of the Health and Human Services Department weren't quite coordinated. Now the Government Accountability Office has put HHS leadership and coordination of public health emergencies on the list of at-risk federal programs.
April 26, 2023 -
The biannual list of high risk federal programs, published last week by the Government Accountability Office, is both promising and discouraging.
April 25, 2023 -
Congress last week took up several issues close to the federal bureaucracy. There was the Small Business Administration and its struggles with defaulted COVID loans, the Veterans Affairs Department and its troubled Electronic Health Record project, and the [Government Accountability Office (GAO's) High-Risk List.
April 24, 2023 -
A new model aims to allocate DoD's limited facility sustainment dollars toward buildings where the funding can do the most good. But the funding model itself is subject to budget challenges, and might not be ready until 2026.
April 21, 2023 -
16 of the 37 federal programs and governmentwide challenges on GAO’s 2023 high risk list improved, according to the latest biennial report the agency published Thursday.
April 20, 2023 -
For 25 years, IT giant IBM has operated a government focused think tank. It's called the IBM Center for the Business of Government. To commemorate the Silver Anniversary, the center is holding an essay contest.
April 20, 2023 -
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.
April 19, 2023 -
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts keeps the busy system of court dockets running. It has information technology underpinning this work.
April 19, 2023