As the Trump administration prepares to unleash Federal civilian agency reorganization plans that will leave many of them significantly smaller in size and more focused on accomplishing administration aims, the House Oversight and Reform Committee is lining up a panel of former Federal chief information officers (CIOs) for a hearing next week to dig into how to further improve government efficiency through IT modernization. […]

Members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee clashed during a lengthy markup session on Tuesday over several pieces of legislation, including bills that would expand the Trump administration’s ability to reorganize the Federal government and terminate collective bargaining agreements. […]

Democratic members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee conducted an ultimately unsuccessful exercise today to round up enough votes to authorize a subpoena for Elon Musk to appear before the committee to explain recent actions of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) organization that he runs at the direction of President Donald Trump. […]

Bipartisan leadership of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce is asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to take a fresh look at the Federal government’s improper payments rates and root causes at the agency level that lead to incorrect payments. […]

After more than a year of probing, lawmakers have finally received agency data from the White House on Federal telework numbers. […]

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee voted on May 15 to approve a bill that would require implementation of vulnerability disclosure policies by Federal contractors. The bill will now go to the full House of Representatives for further consideration. […]

The House of Representatives passed a bill by unanimous consent on Monday that aims to create more oversight of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) organization. […]

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C. – chair of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, IT, and Government Innovation – is probing the General Services Administration’s (GSA) chief information officer (CIO) after the agency’s inspector general (IG) found that it had purchased Chinese-manufactured videoconference cameras with known security vulnerabilities.  […]

Lawmakers and expert witnesses discussed ways the U.S. can better ensure Federal software systems are protected against cyberattacks from hostile foreign nations like China during a House Oversight Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday. […]

Officials from the health care and education sectors called on Congress Wednesday to provide better Federal aid to state and local governments to not only respond to ransomware attacks, but also to help prevent them. […]

Members of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are once again asking Federal agencies to share data on how many of their employees are teleworking, after not receiving a response to their initial request for that data in May. […]

Members of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation blasted the Department of Defense (DoD) on Wednesday over its decision to abandon the MyTravel system – a $374 million replacement to modernize the agency’s outdated Defense Travel System (DTS). […]

The House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation sunk its teeth into robotic dogs, drones, and other technologies it identified as important for law enforcement and military applications at a June 23 subcommittee hearing. […]

The newly named House Oversight and Accountability Committee – formerly known as the House Oversight and Reform Committee – has officially split its Government Operations Subcommittee into two new subcommittees with focuses on tech issues and Federal government workforce. […]