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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) asked the Government Accountability Office to review potential conflicts of interest, possible violations of security protocol and issues of transparency and logistics of President-elect Donald Trump's transition. Meanwhile, two other lawmakers are once again raising concerns about the potential for political appointees to "burrow in" to career positions.
Because 2020 will be the first time that the Census will rely more upon the internet than paper, the bureau has to test, roll out and connect 52 separate systems, which is a tall order for the agency.Because 2020 will be the first time that the Census will rely more upon the internet than paper, the bureau has to test, roll out and connect 52 separate systems, which is a tall order for the agency.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden met with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services CEO Meg Whitman in October to discuss ongoing challenges with the $2.5 billion ACES contract.
Experts in the federal community say President-elect Donald Trump's business acumen will likely factor into the future of the federal workforce during the next administration. Trump will likely play closer attention to measures that would hold poor-performers accountable. Though they may not agree on all the issues, some federal unions say they hope they can find common ground on proposals that would advance federal hiring reforms.
The Office of Personnel Management and its contractor, Winvale/CSID, can't agree on just how many people need to re-enroll with a new vendor to keep credit monitoring and identity protection services, and they haven't yet finalized a plan to smoothly transition those victims to the new service provider, ID Experts.
Three experts develop 12 recommendations based on interviews with CIOs and senior IT managers to measure all seven facets of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is concerned about four agencies that had particularly high retirement processing error rates in September. The Social Security Administration and departments of Agriculture, Interior and Veterans Affairs topped the list. Congress now wants the Government Accountability Office to review the process that agencies and the Office of Personnel Management each use to review a retirement claim.
New preliminary data from Deltek’s GovWin shows agencies spent only $120 million on cloud computing in 2016 despite it being six years since OMB’s cloud-first policy.
The Office of Management and Budget said it's overhauling PaymentAccuracy.gov, the website the agency uses to report improper payments data. The original version of the site wasn't entirely accurate, OMB Controller Dave Mader told Congress. But some lawmakers are skeptical that OMB's work will bring the results it's looking for.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says agencies need to shift in a post-OPM data breach world to a new cybersecurity model.
The Modernization Government Technology Act received approval from the Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Sept. 15 and will likely get voted on by the full House on Sept. 20.
The Oversight and Government Reform Committee unanimously approved the Transit Benefits Modernization Act to let federal employees in the D.C. metro area user “digital transportation companies” such as Uber or Lyft, to get to work during the subway repair effort.
A little more than a month after the Office of Personnel Management dropped its long-term-care bombshell, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is asking where exactly that bomb came from.
Federal employees responded to a Federal News Radio survey critiquing agencies' responses to the SafeTrack program, as lawmakers question which Department of Transportation component should be in charge of Metro safety oversight.