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- Furlough Friday: Multiple agencies take advantage of holiday weekend
- New mobile tools gives agencies ‘giant innovation permission slip'
- VA chipping away at oldest disability claims in backlog
- Congress pressures agencies to speed up office consolidations
- Data breach puts DHS employees at risk of ID theft
- What's the latest on phased retirement?
- IRS replaces official in Tea Party controversy
- Commerce nominee sails through hearing
- Obama nominates Archuleta as next OPM director
- FedRAMP achieves another cloud security milestone
- Tangherlini to be nominated as permanent GSA chief
- House GOP panel moves on deep budget cuts
- OMB reworking financial system requirements
- Federal retirement funds temporarily tapped
- Meet the 2013 Service to America Medal finalists
- Thursday federal headlines - May 23, 2013
Report finds best practices for MD&A
What's the best way for you to communicate your agency's mission, efforts, accomplishments, and challenges? A new report can help. We get details from the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board's Wendy Payne.
Prove your worth using smart power
Smart Power implies the synchronization and integration of multiple government organizations to secure our national interests around the world. We get details from Booz Allen's Jon Allen and Cheryl Steele.
Success stories of procurement hiring
Appian CTO and co-founder Michael Beckley discusses success stories and how they happened.
Consolidating data centers? Look out for these problems.
Your agency is consolidating data centers, but you might run into a few problems along the way. The Commerce Department has closed six. Simon Szykman, CIO for Commerce, explains how to make this consolidation process as smooth as possible.
How to avoid the governance speed bump
An ever-increasing focus on process and compliance has made governance processes burdensome rather than a catalyst for program success and mission enablement. Booz Allen Hamilton's Michael Isman has some tips for IT managers on how to deal with that.
Renewed partnership focuses on federal efficiencies
The ACUS is committed to promoting improved government procedures by leveraging interactive technologies and encouraging open communication with the public. We get details from chairman, Paul Verkuil.
How to write better e-mail
Tips teleworking managers need to know about e-mail.
Most agencies lacking in classification policy
Less than half of the agencies directed by the President have complied with his 2010 request for a document security policy. ISOO has released their annual report on the agencies progress and where they need improvement.
OPM gives agencies new way to measure time-to-hire
The Office of Personnel Management and the Chief Human Council Officers council have provided guidelines to agencies for improving time-to-hire. The requirements will begin June 30.
OPM: Tips to meet June 7 telework deadline
The Office of Personnel Management has produced guidelines for implementing a policy for telework. The guide outlines expectations of teleworkers and reminds agencies of the June 7 deadline to finalize their policies.
One year post-spill, Thad Allen sees progress
Working with government agencies means working in a political environment. The response, former Coast Guard Admiral and Commandant Thad Allen said, was "as much as a political event as an operational event."
20 Ideas to reform government
Common Good's Philip Howard asked 20 top American thinkers for their ideas.
OMB finalizes plain writing law implementation
OIRA issues its second memo since the Plain Writing Act became law detailing deadlines and training requirements.
How to improve life for Performance Improvement
PIOs have been interviewed to find out what issues and challenges they are facing. Its report provides some solutions for improving performance management across government. Robert Shea, a principal at Grant Thornton, has details.
PIOs stretched too thin, lack authority to affect change
The Partnership for Public Service interviewed PIOs to find out what issues and challenges they are facing. Its report provides some solutions for improving performance management across government.
How to cut costs and avoid furloughs at your agency
Federally Employed Women conducted a survey of federal employees to offer suggestions to Congress in cutting agencies' costs.
Social media challenges agency records management
Agencies are increasingly using social media in their work. But platforms like Facebook and Twitter offer challenges to records management.
OPM says managers are too timid
OPM Director John Berry is calling for agency executives to use their existing tools to get rid of poor performers. Berry tells House lawmakers that over the next year OPM will work with managers improve performance management. OPM also giving up on its retirement systems modernization program and putting its financial management system upgrade on hold.
Carter: DoD needs acquisition 'fast lane'
Ashton Carter, the Defense Department's undersecretary for acquisitions, said the Pentagon can buy things quickly when it truly needs to. But when it comes to supporting overseas contingency operations, he said the country needs a dedicated, permanent "fast lane" that leapfrogs DoD's notoriously slow methods of buying goods and services.
Strategies for managers under CRs
Focusing on these five strategies could help federal managers deal with budget constraints and low morale in the workplace.
