Government Accountability Office
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The Office of Management and Budget will lead “a coordinated approach" to fold agency strategic plans and priority goals into the Biden administration’s fiscal 2023 budget request and its President’s Management Agenda.
March 25, 2021 -
Sexual assaults are still increasing in the military, despite hundreds of recommendations over the years.
March 24, 2021 -
Congress is doling out money wholesale, including to the still young Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security.
March 24, 2021 -
The Veterans Benefits Administration said it can bring down its backlog of 212,000 pending disability claims to a more manageable level by the end of September.
March 23, 2021 -
The Marine Corps' bid to replace its heavy lift helicopter is running into heavy downdrafts. Federal Drive spoke with the Government Accountability Office's Jon Ludwigson for an update.
March 17, 2021 -
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government Accountability Office still faces a higher demand for its oversight work.
March 11, 2021 -
The Bureau of Prisons has one of the federal government's grimmer missions: keeping more than 125,000 convicted offenders safely behind bars. It needs to do a better job of assessing the staffing levels of frontline employees though.
March 10, 2021 -
The biennial list steams on, a few programs off, a few added, but the billions go.
March 05, 2021 -
The Government Accountability Office has released its biennial list of high-risk federal programs. With some of what goes into establishing the list, the head of the GAO, Comptroller General Gene Dodaro.
March 04, 2021 -
Homeland Security handed out 26 grants to state and local governments to combat violent extremism. But they failed to document the criteria for the awards, according to the Government Accountability Office.
March 03, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is reminding servicemembers and DoD employees about the ethical values of the department.
March 03, 2021 -
In the latest biennial update on Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office removed DoD real property issues from its High Risk List. But DoD is still solely responsible for five of the 19 matters remaining on the list.
March 03, 2021 -
Federal human capital challenges are the root cause behind two-thirds of the broad topics on the Government Accountability Office's biennial high-risk list. And while GAO removed one program from the list, some areas have regressed.
March 02, 2021 -
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is telling the military services to stand up new violence prevention workforces, identify "high risk" bases and assess their own compliance with existing policies meant to stop sexual assault.
March 01, 2021 -
The Competition in Contracting Act stay is only available when a protest is filed no later than ten days after contract award or no later than five days after a debriefing.
February 25, 2021