Government Accountability Office
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After several years, a consortium of agencies has been working on FedRAMP, a program to certify cybersecurity of cloud computing services providers.
January 02, 2020 -
The General Services Administration does a decent job of meeting cost and schedules for new buildings and remodeling projects, but it fails to make note of when the costs or schedules are revised.
December 27, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office says adding those functions could increase operation costs, and decrease the efficiency of its mail and package delivery.
December 24, 2019 -
The Director of Strategic Issues at the Government Accountability Office, Kris Nguyen, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for some of the threats to Treasury bond sales.
December 19, 2019 -
The House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations hearing on the 9th version of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard provided some interesting insights beyond the grades for each agency.
December 17, 2019 -
The Government Accountability Office found GSA will not recover the costs to run the Technology Modernization Fund until 2025 and highlighted other delays in the projects in terms of paying back the loans.
December 16, 2019 -
The Office of Management and Budget’s general counsel reversed long-time policy that required agencies to automatically report Antideficiency Act violations to GAO and Congress. Now agencies must report only if they and OMB decides a violation occurred.
December 16, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, NASA and GSA both saw increases in their technology services and products sales.
December 16, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, two lawmakers want to even the playing field for hourly wage workers and General Schedule employees who work in the same location.
December 13, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, four out of five members of the National Treasury Employees Union say they're starting to worry about the impact of a potential government shutdown on their finances.
December 12, 2019 -
The House Oversight and Reform Committee released the ninth version of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard with 20 of 24 agencies improving or maintaining their scores.
December 11, 2019 -
For a variety of reasons, many U.S. military installations are in danger of insufficient water.
December 11, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Government Accountability Office found the agencies excluded more than $271 million in building costs per year, between fiscal 2015 through 2018.
December 11, 2019 -
The government spends $135 billion a year on research and development. Yet much of it remains inaccessible to the public.
December 05, 2019 -
The military services are getting fed up with housing contractors that are not cleaning up issues with service members' homes.
December 04, 2019