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Tag Archives: General Services Administration
The 2021 High Risk List—Which Programs Are At High Risk of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse? (videos)
7 Areas Improved; Five Got Worse; 20 Showed Little Change Today, we post our latest High Risk List, which includes 36 areas across the federal government vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement or needing broad-based transformation. Our list includes … Continue reading
Posted in About GAO
Tagged Census 2020, Census Bureau, Chris Mihm, cybersecurity, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Drug misuse, Environmental Protection Agency, epa, Food and Drug Administration, General Services Administration, high risk areas, high risk list, NASA, National Nuclear Security Administration, postal service, SI, Small Business Administration, strategic issues, tax policy, U.S. Postal Service
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Proving You’re You: How Federal Agencies Can Improve Online Verification
So much of how we collect and share information in today’s world is done online. We get our news. We do our shopping and banking. We book appointments. And online access has even made it easier for us to apply … Continue reading
Posted in Information Security
Tagged Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Credit reporting, cybersecurity, Department of Veterans Affairs, General Services Administration, identity verification, Information technology and cybersecurity, Internal Revenue Service, ITC, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Nick Marinos, Social Security Administration, US Postal Service
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Office Space
The federal government spends billions of dollars every year to operate and maintain the roughly 273,000 buildings it owns or leases. But we’ve reported for years on problems with how the federal government manages its real estate—in fact, federal real … Continue reading
The Great Shake Out: What You Need to Know About Earthquake Preparedness
Earthquake preparedness helps protect lives and property from the devastation that earthquakes can cause. It’s particularly important for earthquakes that are difficult to predict or arrive with little warning. The Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills are happening tomorrow—are you prepared? To … Continue reading
Posted in National Defense, Podcast, Science and Technology
Tagged alert, California, Department of Defense, DOD, earthquake drill, earthquake zones, earthquakes, General Services Administration, Great Shake Out, GSA, HSJ, LA, Los Angeles, map, Memphis, quakes, San Francisco, Seattle, Shake Alert, Shake Out, ShakeAlert
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The Costs and Benefits of Federal Telework (podcast)
It used to be that if you weren’t in the office, you couldn’t get work done. Now, at least 1 million federal employees are eligible to telework. But what are the costs and benefits to federal agencies of this flexible … Continue reading
Posted in Government Operations, Podcast
Tagged CHCO, Chief Human Capital Officers, Department of Transportation, DOT, Environmental Protection Agency, epa, FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, federal telework, feds, General Services Administration, GSA, Merit Systems Protection Board, MSPB, Office of Personnel Management, OPM, telework, United States Department of Agriculture, usda, Yvonne Jones
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