Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
Lawmakers call on DHS watchdog to step aside from Jan. 6 Secret Service investigation
Carolyn Maloney, D-NY and Bennie Thompson, D-MS, say Joseph Cuffari failed to notify Congress that the Secret Service had refused for months to comply with the watchdog’s request for information.
White House disagrees with GAO over agencies’ information security program ratings
OMB refutes the watchdog's finding that it should adopt a more precise scale for rating agencies' IT security.
Oversight leader says volume of datasets ‘biggest challenge’ in COVID-19 fraud prevention
Robert Westbrooks says the pandemic response accountability committee is triaging datasets as it progresses with fraud detection work.
Interior awards its last major EIS task order for $483M
With the procurement of voice services, the department can focus fully on modernizing IT and telecom.
Agencies urged to improve quality of spending data despite ‘higher’ ratings
The DATA Act ordered 51 OIGs to evaluate how agencies are handling spending data. Thirty-seven of them gave good marks.
IT was one of the top ‘frequently reported’ challenges in IG reports in 2017
"[IT] is a long-standing, serious, and ubiquitous challenge for federal agencies," the report states.
