Government Accountability Office
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Thanks to that extensive survey by the Government Accountability Office, we know just how empty federal offices really are. None of them is more than half full. That fact has depressed the market for certain commodities a lot of vendors counted on each year as a kind of annuity.
July 18, 2023 -
An extended hold on military promotions by a Republican Senator is distorting talks over the National Defense Authorization Act.
July 17, 2023 -
17 of 24 agency headquarters offices are at or below one-quarter of full capacity, the Government Accountability Office found in preliminary findings from 2023 data.
July 13, 2023 -
The Defense Department has been steadily developing artificial intelligence capabilities. But how should it go about purchasing AI tools? To get some ideas, the Government Accountability Office recently looked into how a handful of companies handle it.
July 12, 2023 -
NITAAC says it would extend the CIO-SP3 governmentwide acquisition contract another six months, through April 2024 after it decided to take corrective action on the follow-on contract.
July 11, 2023 -
It's perfectly legal for federal agencies to make grants to foreign entities. Research and scientific good can come of it. But it requires oversight. The Government Accountability Office looked at how the Health and Human Services Department, and in particular the National Institutes of Health, oversees foreign grants, or money that went to grant sub-recipients in foreign countries, like China.
July 05, 2023 -
NITAAC’s CIO-SP4 governmentwide acquisition contract may have to go back to Phase 1 of the evaluations after GAO agreed with 98 small firms’ complaints that the agency misevaluated proposals.
June 29, 2023 -
The baby boomers used LSD to hallucinate. Nowadays people use generative artificial intelligence to hallucinate, to create misinformation that seems credible. Now the Government Accountability Office has published a detailed study of generative AI and its implications.
June 28, 2023 -
Fragmentation, duplication and overlap. There is too much of it in government programs. It degrades economy and efficiency. Each year the Government Accountability Office (GAO) details instances of multiple agencies doing the same thing. This year GAO found what if calls "100 new matters for congressional consideration."
June 22, 2023 -
The Government Accountability Office is telling Congress that better management of existing federal programs could save billions of dollars in the coming years.
June 19, 2023 -
The office has a short but turbulent history, and its employee engagement scores are among the worst in the entire federal government.
June 19, 2023 -
The State Department’s Foreign Service is recruiting a new generation of its IT workforce, and training them to support its diplomatic mission at posts across the globe.
June 19, 2023 -
Air Force plans to recruit and retain cyber professionals include a new tech track career path set to debut next year.
June 16, 2023 -
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seems kind of new at a mere 20 years of age. But it has a lot of really old information technology, politely called, "legacy systems." The Government Accountability Office gave DHS a list of recommendations for modernizing. But, as you might have guessed, there's still a lot of work to do.
June 14, 2023 -
The State Department’s first chief diversity and inclusion officer is asking Congress for more funding to build out its data analytics capabilities, after spending much of the past two years getting a baseline of the department's workforce diversity.
June 13, 2023