Government Accountability Office
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Engagement scores for Transportation Security Officers have ranked below the average for federal employees. Its taken steps to help foster engagement.
March 13, 2024 -
Agencies need to do more to train employees to try to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, according to a new GAO report.
February 29, 2024 -
The Homeland Security Department put together an inaccurate AI uses list, according to the Government Accountability Office, which found a few problems.
February 28, 2024 -
Multiple-award contracts don't mean everyone who bids get a slot. A new federal circuit court ruling shows that losing companies can protest those who did get an award and maybe knock them off.
February 22, 2024 -
The Federal Program Inventory, an online database government programs Congress first mandated in 2011, finally went live Thursday.
February 15, 2024 -
Every federal agency uses software. Too many pay through the nose. Technically, you don't buy software, you license it. When you end up with more licenses than users, you waste money. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds, that is exactly what at least 10 departments do.
February 14, 2024 -
The FITARA scorecard continues to be a point of contention between Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on cyber and IT leaders.
February 07, 2024 -
A cloud computing security program established in 2011, continues to present difficulties to government and industry: FedRAMP, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, is a way of establishing that cloud computing service companies are secure. But more than 12 years in, the program still has cost uncertainty. And agencies don't always use FedRAMP approved vendors, according to the Government Accountability Office.
January 31, 2024 -
Federal improper payments roll on and on, year after year. Among the most frustrating are fraudulent unemployment benefits, federal dollars that get spent by the states. Last fall, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated that as much as 15% of pandemic-era unemployment spending went to fraudsters, or as much as $135 billion.
January 24, 2024 -
The challenges facing our nation are many and significant. They require agile means to access the innovation needed to address them. That agility cannot be found in a system made sclerotic by mechanisms focused on compliance without a concomitant demonstration of benefit.
January 19, 2024 -
Offering telework to federal employees supports recruitment, retention, satisfaction and engagement, Mark Green, chief human capital officer at the Interior Department, told members of the House Natural Resources committee this week.
January 18, 2024 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to update its workforce strategies. A CIA technology leader is headed to the private sector. And GSA's Polaris contract is pulled back into the protest vortex.
January 18, 2024 -
Veterans who want to start businesses often turn to the Small Business Administration for loans. The SBA is obligated to give them special consideration. But the Government Accountability Office found that SBA doesn't really have procedures in place to deal with veterans. For more, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Daniel Garcia-Diaz, GAO's Managing Director for Financial Markets.
January 17, 2024 -
In today's Federal Newscast: National Cyber Director Harry Coker calls for more diversity when hiring for federal cyber jobs. The Space Development Agency has made $2.5 billion worth of awards to build its tracking layer. And the VA is looking to reduce the child-birth mortality rate for women veterans.
January 17, 2024 -
Rulemaking. The government does lots and lots of it. But because the power to regulate is the power to destroy, rulemaking has rules. And like all agency activities, it requires congressional oversight. The Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress asked the Government Accountability Office for ideas on how to improve rulemaking oversight.
January 10, 2024