Inspector General news from FierceGovernmentIT

By switching to agile development, the FBI says it can now finish its troubled Sentinel project for $20 million and within 12 months--despite having already spent nearly 90 percent of its $451 Read more...

Interagency contracting can get sticky; for an example, look no further than the Homeland Security Department. The inspector general recently chided the department for an unclear lease agreement to Read more...

The Social Security Administration is in the hot seat for failing to comply with recommendations made eight years ago to tighten its IT security standards. A new inspector general's report found the Read more...

The National Nuclear Security Administration spent $150 million to develop a project to improve cybersecurity but it failed, the Energy Department's Inspector General said on Monday. The report, Read more...

The Department of Veterans Affairs is moving quickly to deal with the aftermath of a series of critical IT failures that have enveloped the agency. It announced on Wednesday that it is setting up an Read more...

The never-ending saga of the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs' IT shop continues. Last week, it was a story of outlandish bonuses to favorite employees, widespread nepotism and abuse of Read more...

The managers of the Department of Veterans Affairs technology office awarded $24 million in bonuses to thousands of employees in 2007 and 2008--awards that the agency Inspector General said were "not Read more...

The Department of Energy is the government agency in charge of making sure the nation is more energy efficient, but it unfortunately has not gotten its own house in order. The department's inspector Read more...

There's a headache every day somewhere in the federal IT world. And this time, the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to take two aspirin and retool. A report by the Inspector General finds that Read more...

The DoD's inspector general is looking for Internet database sources to help investigate and protect activities related to terrorism and cyber crimes, among other goals, according to a DoDIG Read more...