IG: CMS Did Not Meet Notification Requirements After Health Records Breach
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services notified 13,775 Medicare beneficiaries that their health records were compromised but it still …More
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The Government Printing Office and the National Archives’ Office of the Federal Register have released a mobile Web application on …More
Poor Planning Led to Overspending on Encryption Licenses at VA
The Department of Veterans Affairs IT office has failed to install and activate many of the 300,000 encryption software licenses …More
IG Calls IRS IT Support Reorganization a Success
The IRS has successfully restructured one of its IT support organizations, but it should go further to ensure employees use …More
Report: Agencies Still Wasting Money on Swag
An investigation by a Republican-oriented watchdog group, Cause of Action, has found that some agencies are ignoring President Obama’s 2011 …More
IG Finds DHS Out of Compliance with FAR
DHS does not always comply with a provision in the Federal Acquisition Regulation to justify the selection of other than …More
Sets up External Review for Alleged Reprisal
The directive states that an employee alleging reprisal and who has otherwise exhausted the new review process may request an …More
Directive Creates Whistleblower Protections for Intelligence Employees
President Obama has issued a policy directive that creates some new whistleblower protections for employees in the intelligence community but …More
IT Security Improvements Sought at GSA
GSA’s IT security patching for high-risk vulnerabilities are not done quickly enough, the agency’s inspector general has said after looking …More
IG Calls on IRS to Improve Firearms Training for Criminal Investigators
The IRS Criminal Investigation Division needs to ensure that its special agents are taking and passing required firearms training, the …More
Group Petitions for Right to Appeal Redaction of FOIA Documents
A consumer advocacy group, Public Citizen, is petitioning the FDA to stop redacting portions of documents released under the Freedom …More
GAO Finds Overlap but not Duplication in Agency Solar Power Efforts
Sixty-five solar-related initiatives supported by six federal agencies are fragmented across the agencies and overlap to some degree in their …More
Additional Postal Retirement Incentives Announced
The American Postal Workers Union has announced an agreement with USPS to provide full-time employees who have 20 years of …More
IG Questions Savings From Moving Email to Cloud
In 2010 GSA announced it would migrate its Lotus Notes email system to a cloud solution provided by Unisys Corporation, …More
VA Fills 45,000 Spots for Retraining Program
The Department of Veterans Affairs has approved applications for all 45,000 slots available for fiscal 2012 under its Veterans Retraining …More
IRS Needs to Improve Processing of Identity Theft Referrals, IG Says
The IRS is not efficiently or effectively processing information referrals, including identity theft claims, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax …More
Charge Card Safeguards Approved
President Obama has signed S-300, the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012, designed to implement stronger program integrity …More
FLRA Says RIF Not Legit, Orders Reinstatement of Employees
The Federal Labor Relations Authority has upheld an arbitrator’s decision that the Broadcasting Board of Governor’s Office of Cuba Broadcasting …More
OMB Clarifies WARN Act Obligations in Event of Sequestration
OMB has issued a memo ahead of a potential sequestration in January if a budget deal is not agreed to, …More
VA Cited for Wasteful Conference Spending
The Department of Veterans Affairs has said it substantiated allegations of wasteful spending on two conferences in Orlando, Fla., in …More
Treasury IG Calls on Federal Agencies to Settle Tax Debt
Federal agencies owe about $14 million in unpaid taxes, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has said in noting …More
USPS Defaults Again
The Postal Service has announced that in the second time in two months it is defaulting on a mandated $5.6 …More
Federal Employee Financial Disclosure Posting Delayed
President Obama has signed a modification to the STOCK Act that delays the implementation of a provision that would have …More
MSPB: Agency Can be Responsible for Retaliation Even if Not Directly Culpable
If an agency official retaliates against a current or former employee via another official unaware of the motive, the agency …More
GPO Recognized for Budget App
The Government Printing Office has received a Digital Government Achievement Award from the Center for Digital Government in recognition of …More
Deadline Announced for Presidential Management Fellows Program
Job opportunity announcements for enrollment in the 2013 class for the Presidential Management Fellows Program will be posted to USAJOBS …More
GAO Calls on Census Bureau to Implement Key Management Practices
The Census Bureau has drafted a new investment management plan, system development methodology, and requirements development and management processes to …More
Draft Qualification Standard Issued for Internship Positions
OPM has issued a draft qualification standard describing the requirements for "Schedule D" Internship appointments under the Pathways program that …More
MSPB Takes a Look at Who Pays for Telework Equipment
Lost in the discussion of telework technology and equipment is the question of who pays for what, the Merit Systems …More
GAO: More Disciplined Investment Management Needed at DHS
More disciplined investment management is needed at DHS, GAO has said after finding that 68 of 71 program managers it …More
