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Bowles: 'No easy way' to get books back in order
Tags: budget , President Barack Obama , Paul Ryan , Congress , Jeff Sessions , CBO , deficit
Feds offer cost-cutting ideas in third SAVE Awards
Through July 29, feds can submit their money-saving ideas. OMB narrows the ideas to the final four and then opens voting to the public.
Tags: Collaboration Center , SAVE Award , budget , OMB , White House ,
Agencies getting tougher on contractors?
Faced with increasingly tighter federal budgets, agency leaders are getting tougher on contract spending. The Office of Management and Budget announced in March that spending on federal contracting had actually declined for the first time in more than a decade. Also, earlier this month, OMB directed agencies to cut spending on service contracts by 15 percent.
Tags: contracting , acquisition , OMB , service contracting , USAID
A look at OMB's administration assessment and management plans
Francis Rose is joined by former OMB associate director Robert Shea with analysis on the memo
Tags: InDepth , Francis Rose , OMB , administration , Robert Shea , Grant Thornton
Unions to management: stop talking, start doing telework
AFGE, NTEU lead discussion to broaden discussion about telecommuting to more than just during emergencies. The White House is working on a new governmentwide telework policy. AFGE wants to add telework options into new bargaining agreements.
Tags: pay and benefits , John Berry , Seth Harris , OPM , OMB , Labor , John Gage , Colleen Kelley , Patricia Niehaus , AFGE , NTEU , FMA , telework , National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relat , Jason Miller
OMB announces ‘cloud first’ policy for agencies
Big news this week on the cloud computing front. Agencies are being required by the Office of Management and Budget to adopt a “cloud-first” policy as part of the 2012 budget process. Jeff Zients, chief performance officer and deputy director for management at OMB, made the announcement during a speech at the Northern Virginia Technology [...]
Tags: cloud computing , data center consolidation , IT , OMB , Vivek Kundra
OMB in search of more money saving ideas
The White House today launched the 2011 version of the SAVE award. Employees can submit ideas starting through July 29. Over the past two years, feds offered more than 56,000 potential money-saving ideas.
Tags: management , OMB , SAVE Award , Bureau of Prisons , VA , budget cuts , Jason Miller
Agencies must cut service contracting by 15 percent
OMB will tell agencies to focus on management support service contracts and reduce spending by $6 billion. OMB said contracting for management support services grew at a faster rate than other types of contracting. The initiative is part of the administration's Campaign to Cut Waste.
Tags: contracting , Dan Gordon , OFPP , OMB , service contracting , management support services , Campaign to Cut Waste , Jason Miller , Richard Ginman , Commerce , Trey Hodgkins , Stan Soloway , TechAmerica , Professional Services Council , DoD
White House reprioritizes online accountability
The websites for the Fiddlin' Foresters - the official U.S. Forest folk band - and one for desert tortoises are a couple of websites that could be on the chopping block in the White House efforts to cut wasteful spending.
Tags: Collaboration Center , Barack Obama , OMB , White House , accountability , websites , technology , Fiddlin' Foresters , Government Accountability and Transparency Board , Darrell Issa
OMB freezes new .gov websites
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra will develop policy and guidance to improve how agencies manage their websites.
Tags: technology , OMB , GSA , OSTP , websites , customer service , .gov domain , executive order , Jason Miller
