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gave more than 1,000 contractors work restricted to federal employees
2011, which regulations dictate must be performed only by federal employees, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office. Specifically, 936 full-time Army contractors and 473 full-time Air Force contractors were performing duties that by 5/24/13 from Washington Business Journal Read more »
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Pentagon responds to GAO report on propaganda
this Q & A, Army Lt. Col. James Gregory responds to criticism of the Pentagon's propaganda programs in a Government Accountability Office report obtained by USA TODAY. The military calls propaganda programs Military Information Support Operations, or MISO. from USA Today Read more »
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DOD business systems under fire from GAO
current on federal government business news. The Government Accountability Office has issued a report criticizing the Defense Department's modernization program to take its business systems enterprisewide, Federal Computer Week reports. "Even though DOD has from Washington Business Journal Read more »
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GAO: ‘Visa Overstay’ Backlog at DHS Remains Over One Million
the Government Accountability Office issued a report of preliminary finding on the progress the Department of Homeland Security has made in its efforts to reduce the backlog of immigrant visas. Although almost 863,000 records were "closed" in the last two from The Weekly Standard Read more »
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Federal Contracts and Labor Law Violations
September 2010, the Government Accountability Office issued a report concluding that the government had paid $6 billion in fiscal year 2009 federal contracts to contractors who had been cited for violations of federal labor laws. Seven months earlier, the from Lawyers, Guns and Money Read more »