Government Accountability Office
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The 8½ inch floppy disk held up at the recent House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing was good theater, but it doesn’t tell the entire story of the state of old technology in the government.
May 31, 2016 -
Government contractors and GAO are likely to be busy this summer responding to several billion-dollar solicitations for IT services and dealing with the corresponding protests from the losing bidders.
May 31, 2016 -
The bills aim to improve coordination within and between agencies, further reduce duplicate efforts and improve availability of information on government grants and data.
May 26, 2016 -
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he was warming up to the idea of the fund, but wants assurances that the money will be spent wisely and receive a return on investment.
May 26, 2016 -
Commerce, Energy, Labor and NASA told House lawmakers how they each are meeting the spirit and intent of the IT reform law.
May 23, 2016 -
Members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent a letter to OMB Director Shaun Donovan asking for information on how the agency is going to adjust its pilot program so it meets DATA Act requirements ahead of the May 2017 implementation.
May 17, 2016 -
House lawmakers are set to release the second scorecard grading agencies' implementation of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) and the progress across all four categories is limited.
May 17, 2016 -
Michael Sullivan, GAO's director for defense weapons system acquisitions, and Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president of the IT Industry Council, are guests on this week's Pentagon Solutions.
May 17, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office wants DoD to declare the update of the F-35 a separate acquisition program for transparency and accountability reasons. Michael Sullivan, GAO's Director for Defense Weapons System Acquisitions detailed that rationale on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 13, 2016 -
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), says a bill is being drafted to address Postal Service reforms. The reforms include addressing the mandate to pre-fund health retiree benefits, as well as merging the USPS Board of Governors and the Postal Regulatory Commission.
May 11, 2016 -
Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, and Brenda Farrell, director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues at the GAO, join Pentagon Solutions.
May 09, 2016 -
Objections to the use of lowest-price technically acceptable for contracts are growing, including Booz Allen Hamilton and CACI protests of DISA’s $17.5 billion ENCORE III solicitation and a new bill from two senators to restrict when the military uses this type of contract.
May 09, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget is reminding agencies what is expected of them as the countdown begins for the DATA Act's full implementation in May 2017.
May 09, 2016 -
In this heated election season, the Government Accountability Office finds that some military absentee voting bugaboos persist, and the brass needs to do more about it. Brenda Farrell, GAO's director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues, shared her insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 06, 2016 -
The U.S. Agency of International Development and the Government Accountability Office are teaming up to help strengthen what they call international accountability. Reginald Mitchell, USAID chief financial officer, and Janet St. Laurent, recently retired director of Defense Capabilities and Management at the GAO, join Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share details.
May 05, 2016