Government Accountability Office
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Federal Drive with Tom Temin got the latest from Shelby Oakley, the director of contracting and national security acquisitions at the Government Accountability Office.
June 30, 2021 -
The old question persists. Why should it be so difficult to remove underperforming federal employees?
June 28, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office estimates how much it's going to cost for the Defense Department to continue investigating and cleaning up the so called "forever chemicals."
June 24, 2021 -
The Department of Homeland Security set out in 2016 to replace its facial and fingerprint recognition system. But little has gone right for the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology program.
June 23, 2021 -
The Pentagon has a new strategy to deliver cloud services to OCONUS users, but a single, JEDI-like enterprise cloud service is conspicuously absent from discussion in the document.
June 21, 2021 -
More than 75 years have passed since the Navy has had to repair several battle-damaged ships all at once. Now naval planners are wondering whether this capability might be needed once again.
June 16, 2021 -
The Army has expanded its temporary lodging improvement plans out to 2029.
June 14, 2021 -
In its latest look at how the State Department manages itself, the Government Accountability Office found State has made a lot of progress. Federal Drive got the latest from GAO's Jason Bair.
June 09, 2021 -
GAO’s chief scientist Tim Persons said the agency is building artificial intelligence and cloud services in its Innovation Lab to drive toward better analytics.
June 08, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office has a tough assessment of the inspector general's office at the Department of Homeland Security.
June 07, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new White House memorandum establishes fighting corruption as a core national security interest for the Biden administration.
June 04, 2021 -
For the latest, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the GAO's director of contracting and national security acquisition issues, William Russell.
June 02, 2021 -
DoD and Amazon Web Services intend to keep fighting in court over JEDI, but have very different ideas about how the case should proceed.
May 28, 2021 -
The State Department's Foreign Affairs Information Technology Fellowship is focused on supplying in-demand tech talent to the Foreign Service and diversifying its ranks.
May 27, 2021 -
Industry and Congress say real progress has been made on the security clearance backlog, but they want to see the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency and other departments move with more speed to transform an outdated process.
May 27, 2021