Government Accountability Office
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The VA has tried twice to fix the way its takes care of reusable medical equipment. But the Government Accountability Office is still finding some problems.
May 09, 2011 -
Davi D\'Agostino, Director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues at GAO, discusses the report\'s findings.
May 06, 2011 -
The Government Accountability Office spoke with foreign countries about how they\'ve modernized their mail systems and offered ideas to the U.S. Postal Service based on its findings. Phil Herr, director of physical infrastructure issues at GAO, talks about the report.
May 05, 2011 -
The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan is relying on the Government Accountability Office to offer actionable information about contracting in war zones.
April 28, 2011 -
The Defense Department lacks details for how it will evaluate its 226,000 civilian employees after they transition from the merit-based National Security Personnel System to the General Schedule by the end of this year.
April 28, 2011 -
The General Services Administration has lost a protest to CarlsonWagonlit Sato Travel on the follow-on contract for agencies up upgrade their governmentwide E-Travel systems.
April 25, 2011 -
William Welch chairs the government contracts group at the General Counsel law firm and he tells us why.
April 22, 2011 -
Congressional auditors are recommending some changes to the way treasury manages the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
April 21, 2011 -
As a result of Deepwater\'s failures, the Coast Guard has reformed the acquisitions management process. We talk with GAO\'s John Hutton about how that\'s going.
April 21, 2011 -
The federal government will spend $79 billion on information technology this year. How can agencies prevent projects from cost overruns and poor management?
April 13, 2011 -
A bill introduced last week in the Senate would hire more Federal Protective Service guards and increase resources for training.
April 11, 2011 -
The Homeland Security Department\'s chief management officer said Tuesday that the lack of a departmentwide financial management system is a huge deficiency. Fixing that, he said, is among the department\'s primary management priorities.
April 06, 2011 -
The Pentagon is under fire from investigators who are \"concerned\" about a weapons program that\'s over budget and past its deadline.
April 06, 2011 -
Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del) is chairing a hearing on weapons systems cost overruns this afternoon.
March 29, 2011 -
The Government Accountability Office said in findings announced to Congress Tuesday that the Nunn-McCurdy amendment, designed to curtail cost growth in Defense programs, has succeeded in bringing an end to only one overly costly military program in the last 14 years.
March 29, 2011