Oversight news from FierceGovernmentIT

The Agriculture Department is "struggling" to prioritize how it will address numerous IT security weaknesses, according to an oversight official. In the course of 3 years the Agriculture Department's Read more...

Quality Improvement Organizations, which contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, need improved oversight of budgeting and spending because CMS lacks guidelines on how much data Read more...

Listen up, everyone. The boss is watching and reviewing every one of your federal information technology projects. Federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra disclosed last week that the White Read more...

The overhaul of the Recovery.gov website by outside contractors will be supervised directly by the General Services Administration, not the oversight board that maintains the site. The website tracks Read more...

The Obama administration is working hard to keep track of stimulus funds given to agencies and recipients, Aliya Sternstein reports in nextgov.com. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, Read more...

The Defense Department's space-based Global Positioning System is aging, and there is concern about the possible loss or degradation of some important services. At a congressional hearing last week, Read more...

It's never easy to keep track of supplies or any building project in a war zone. Now the U.S. government is hoping to improve its oversight of contractors working in Iraq and Afghanistan with a Read more...

The disarray and lack of coordination in the federal government's approach to cybersecurity oversight may lead the Obama administration to take away control of operations from the Department of Read more...

Someone has to be in charge of policing the spending of $787 billion stimulus package, and that person is Earl E. Devaney, the inspector general for the Interior Department. He's been given this Read more...

We caution you to hold off spending the money you will get as part of the enormous $787 billion stimulus law that was signed into law last week by President Obama. Yes, the money is coming, and it Read more...