Government Accountability Office
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The TSP board and its contractor have fixed the bulk of the problems. A few remain. Auditors find the big issue was the board's inexperience in acquisition.
August 15, 2024 -
When the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board rolled out a new system for managing the TSP, account holders encountered a website that barely functioned.
August 07, 2024 -
The Government Accountability Office did what you might call a pressure test, to see if dangerous items could get past guards in federal buildings.
July 31, 2024 -
The Government Accountability Office recently checked back in on how VA is training its claim processors.
July 25, 2024 -
The IT challenges come as multiple agencies have been forced to close their offices for hours or even a full day due to a shortage of federal security guards.
July 25, 2024 -
The Government Accountability Office has found the Marshals Service needs to improve its oversight of incarceration facilities.
July 24, 2024 -
GSA has sold 10 of a dozen properties on PBRB’s list of high-value recommendations, and expects to sell another property by the end of July.
July 16, 2024 -
The federal government is among the biggest spenders on advertising. At about $1.3 billion a year, it's in the top 25 U.S. spenders.
July 10, 2024 -
Conflicts of interest in federal contracts can happen in a lot of ways. In one case, an award winner's subcontractor turned out to have a conflict of interest.
July 10, 2024 -
The 2025 Labor, Health and Human Services and Education appropriations bill includes language specifically targeting federal telework reporting requirements.
June 27, 2024 -
Weapons take too long to develop and field. Dozens of Defense Department acquisition programs are late, slow or over budget.
June 26, 2024 -
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reiterated a list of recommendations to the General Services Agency (GSA) on managing federal real property.
June 20, 2024 -
With stricter measures on who can enroll — and stay enrolled — in FEHB, OPM should be able to more effectively address cost issues in the program, GAO said.
June 17, 2024 -
The GAO says the government wastes billions and billions of dollars on duplicative and overlapping activities, and can help stop the waste with shared services.
June 17, 2024 -
The numbers keep getting bigger, but it’s the same old story. Duplication and overlap in federal programs wastes billion. In its latest annual report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds 112 ways Congress and agencies…
June 05, 2024