High Risk List

Lawmakers push skills-based hiring for federal contractors

The bipartisan ACCESS Act, if enacted, would remove college degree requirements from jobs in the federal contracting space.

Hiring/Retention

Agencies have a standardized set of skills to look for when hiring, developing program evaluators

Hiring/Retention

FILE - A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sign stands at the entrance of their offices in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. On Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, the head of nation's top public health agency announced a shake-up of the organization, in a bid to respond to ongoing criticism and try to make it more nimble. (AP Photo/Ron Harris, File)

Some new ideas to make the CDC more effective in pandemics

Agency Oversight

Why the Bureau of Prisons may be the unhappiest place in America

Agency Oversight

Over half of GAO’s high-risk areas stem from critical skills gaps

Agency Oversight

(Associated Press Photo)

Government Accountability Office, federal budget oversight

Discord case: Arrest doesn’t equal accountability

Tom Temin Commentary

Federal prison system, cybersecurity, human capital and more on GAO’s high risk list

Agency Oversight

Even the government’s main school marm gets a report card

Agency Oversight

FILE - In this May 18, 2020, file photo, Transportation Security Administration officers wear protective masks at a security screening area at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in SeaTac, Wash. The Biden administration says it is moving to increase the pay and union rights for security screeners at the nation’s airports. The Department of Homeland Security directed the acting head of the TSA to come up with a plan within 90 days to raise the pay of the screeners and expand their rights to collective bargaining. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Exposed to COVID-19 on the job? New website lets you join class-action lawsuit for hazard pay

Federal Newscast

House Oversight and Reform Committee Ranking Member James Comer, R-Ky., speaks during a House Oversight and Reform Committee regarding the on Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

GOP members of Congress have lingering questions about federal vaccine mandate

Federal Newscast

Federal Acquisition, GSA

Federal IT acquisition and security stuck on High Risk List

Acquisition

Recruiting science and technology workforce on GAO’s High Risk List

The government isn’t very good at anticipating the types of people it will need, then having a plan to recruit and hire them.

Workforce

Gene Dodaro

On the High Risk List? That doesn’t make you a horrible person

The biennial list steams on, a few programs off, a few added, but the billions go.

Federal Report

Lloyd Austin

Defense workers get ethics reminder from DoD secretary

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is reminding servicemembers and DoD employees about the ethical values of the department.

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