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The Director of GAO’s Financial Markets and Community Investment team, Bill Shear, spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what it's found so far.
In today's Federal Newscast, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee have questions for the Commerce Department regarding it's lack of standing in owning and operating a national 5G network.
The Defense Department is putting $600 million into 5G in five new military installations.
The agency for much of this year has balanced conducting an extended tax filing season with sending more than 160 million payments worth $270 billion in pandemic stimulus funding across the country.
The State Department has been working to establish a new cybersecurity bureau to work with other agencies. Only it hasn't exactly told them what it's up to and that could lead to all sorts of problems.
In today's Federal Newscast, Congress makes another push to allow federal employees and military members to opt-out of the president's payroll tax deferral.
DoD CIO Dana Deasy says officials have been finding temporary homes for cloud applications that were counting on the long-delayed JEDI program. Other preparatory that's not technically part of the contract has been proceeding apace too.
Conflict between GAO and SBA around oversight into COVID-19 relief loans PPP and EIDL has escalated to the point that Comptroller General Gene Dodaro has personally reached out to Congress seeking a resolution.
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has extended waivers for agencies requesting more time to excise that gear from their networks.
The Department of Veterans Affairs said standard community care wait times, similar to the metrics it has for its own health services, aren't necessary, especially if it cleans up its own bureaucratic referral and scheduling process.
Senior Executive Service members are people who, in theory, are capable of moving into just about any agency to help out. But there are rules to how and when they can be moved around.
The executive order President Donald Trump signed last week to ban certain types of diversity training carries enormous potential penalties for federal contractors. But at least for the time being, the vendor community appears to be holding its breath while it figures out exactly what the EO means.
Agencies are often reassigning members of the Senior Executive Service with little oversight, the Government Accountability Office found. And the Office of Personnel Management, which has the authority to crack down on agencies when they fail to reassign SES members properly, said enforcement isn't a major priority.
The government has trouble acquiring information technology on budget and according to what it hopes to accomplish. When a project starts to go off the rails, the agency simply rebases it.