The Government Accountability Office named 15 members to the advisory board to the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) Program. The board was formed under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and will support the Department of Health and Human Services with decision-making on grants and loans to form nonprofit, member-run health insurers in [...]
In an effort to increase efficiency, the GAO looked at Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), an initiative started under the Bush administration requiring all government programs to adopt at least efficiency measure. The GAO reports that “36 efficiency measures in 21 selected programs in 5 agencies and a generalizable sample from the other 1,355 measures [...]
According to a new report by the Government Accountability Office, agencies are not doing an adequate job managing contracts that relate to more than one agency. “Interagency contracts and enterprisewide contracts should provide an advantage to the government in buying billions of dollars worth of goods and services,” the report states. “However, data are lacking [...]
In 2007, GAO found deficiencies in CMS’ internal control over administrative services contracts to implement the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA), which required CMS to start applying the FAR to its Medicare claims processing contracts, a process that MMA requires to be finished by fiscal ’11. GAO made nine recommendations [...]
Learn how to track a hacker. Jeff Zients mandated upgrades for USASpending.gov. Robert Gates called for funding for special operations. FCC’s General Counsel commented on the Comcast Corp. v. FCC ruling. GAO applauded DHS for its National Infrastructure Plan. Raytheon and General Dynamics landed new navy contracts. Lockheed’s mission systems-equipped F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter [...]
DoD has invested billions of dollars in development and procurement of unmanned aircraft systems over the last several years, and in fiscal 2011, the department requested a significant increase in these investments. DoD’s total investment in these technologies will come to more than $24 billion from 2010 through 2015, but to leverage these resources more [...]
CACI’s Paul Cofoni discussed his company’s recent SPAWAR win. Lockheed Martin opened a second security intelligence center. MIT kept its system online during a cyber attack. A pair of Ponzi scam artist Bernie Madoff’s programmers have been indicted. The GAO upheld DynCorp’s protest of an Afghan police training contract award. A new book asks, is [...]
