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Analysis: New CTO & CPO
Tags: management , CTO , Aneesh Chopra , CPO , Emory Simon , Business Software Alliance
OMB asks agencies to develop plans to grow acquisition workforce
OFPP issues two contracting memos today. One gives agencies help to evaluate how competitive their contracting process is. The second one asks agencies to develop a workforce plan to increase the number of acquisition workers by 5 percent by 2014.
Tags: contracting , management , Lesley Field , OMB , OFPP , acquisition workforce , Contracting guidance
OMB's Zients tells Congress about new acquisition goals
Tags: contracting , management , OMB , Jason Miller
Pay raise for Federal employees makes NTEU President Colleen Kelley smile
Omnibus spending bill includes 1-1/2% pay raise plus 1/2% locality increase. Labor-Management Forums will bring labor to the table at agencies. NTEU President Colleen Kelly likes both developments.
Tags: pay and benefits , management , NTEU , National Treasury Employees Union , Colleen Kelley , Office of Management and Budget , John Berry
Contractor award fees: thumbs up or thumbs down?
In the world of federal contracting, no subject raises more controversy than award fees. A Senate committee yesterday got an update on the effort to strike the right balance when it comes to contractor incentives.
Tags: management , contracting , Sen. Tom Carper , Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Gove , OMB
Analysis: The new CPO
Tags: management , CPO , Joel Whitaker , U.S. Institute of Peace , Corporate Executive Board
New report seeks to help streamline federal performance measurement
Tags: management , technology , OMB , OMB Watch , Georgetown Public Policy Institute , Accenture , Adam Hughes , Dorothy Ramienskiki
Blue Dog Dems hound President on budget priorities
Even as the President prepares to transmit his proposed FY 2011 budget to Capitol Hill, a group of increasingly influential centrist Democrat lawmakers in the House is releasing its own version of the budget. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D.-Texas believes that the President needs to focus even more on jobs creation and is pressing for "performance based budgeting" in which agencies are held to even stricter accounting for their spending.
Tags: management , budget , Rep. Henry Cuellar , OMB , President Obama , Max Cacas
Agencies report progress, at last, on security clearance reform
The Federal security clearance process has been on the Government Accountability Office's "high risk list" since 2005. But now, a Senate committee hears evidence that the officials from a task force of federal agencies trying to fix the clearance process may have finally turned a corner.
Tags: management , Pay&benefits , The Senate Government Management and Federal Workf , Daniel Akaka , George Voinovich , OPM , John Berry , OMB , James Clapper , Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence , Max Cacas
Federal shared services effort gets push from new executive forum
GSA leads the group of 20 trying to add structure to all the different initiatives. Shared Services Forum to submit ideas to OMB on how to move governmentwide effort to use cloud computing.
Tags: contracting , technology , management , Jim Williams , GSA , OMB , shared services , Lines of Business
