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by Peter Musurlian
Tue, Jun 13, 2023 12:39 ET
in Employment News, Press Release

  • The House Armed Services Committee will get to work this week on its version of the 2024 defense authorization bill. No one will know the details of what lawmakers have agreed on until a week or so from now, but one provision advanced by Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) would completely eliminate the Pentagon’s office of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE). Congress created that office in 2009 as a way to hold the military services accountable for weapons systems costs. Aides said House members now see the office as an impediment in the acquisition system, partly because of the office’s recent analytical work regarding Navy amphibious ships. The first-draft House proposal does not explain the reasons for CAPE’s disestablishment, and does not indicate how Congress would prefer DoD to handle cost analyses in the future.
  • An IRS watchdog said the agency is not keeping close enough tabs on whistleblower tips that bring in revenue. The IRS spent nearly $600 million in whistleblower awards between fiscal 2017 and 2021. The agency said those tips helped the agency recover $3 billion in proceeds. But the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said the IRS is not capturing all the data that would help its enforcement office decide which whistleblower tips could lead to the biggest payoff. TIGTA found the IRS was late in mailing payment notifications to nearly a third of its whistleblowers.(Additional actions are needed to improve data collection and...


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