Government Accountability Office
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The stability of the nation's electrical grid depends in part on large power transformers. The size of small houses, these transformers are in short supply and they take a long time to build. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that the Energy Department could help secure this important link in the electricity supply chain.
August 16, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The recent Chinese hack of a Microsoft vulnerability prompts DHS to step-up its analysis of all threats to cloud environments. The Postal Service is launching a new initiative to address declines in mail volume. And all those opinions on telework might be wrong.
August 14, 2023 -
New data from GAO found 27 agencies spent more than $40 million through the Commercial Platforms, with 96% going to one of the three providers.
August 09, 2023 -
The proposed House and Senate NDAA bills have language to create new oversight and accountability for defense contractors.
August 07, 2023 -
Protests of agency solicitations or contract awards draw protests about two thousand times every year. It's no fun for either side. But there are things the government can do in crafting an acquisition to lower the chances of a protest.
August 07, 2023 -
A series of audits show a need for fiscal reform at DHA, and a failure to follow recommendations for improvement, particularly involving overpaying for goods and services.
July 27, 2023 -
DoD told House lawmakers the reason for cancelling MyTravel stemmed from slow integration with the services ERP systems and an overall lack of usage that didn’t seem to be increasing in the coming years.
July 27, 2023 -
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