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Sequestration, budget cuts taking its toll on DoD financial managers
DoD's senior executives with responsibility for budget matters report a sudden decline in job satisfaction. No surprise: sequestration's mostly to blame.
Tags: DoD , Sequestration , American Society of Military Comptrollers , Lou Crenshaw , Grant Thornton , Workforce , Financial management , Auditability , Jared Serbu
Sequestration, budget cuts taking its toll on DoD financial managers
DoD's senior executives with responsibility for budget matters report a sudden decline in job satisfaction. No surprise: sequestration's mostly to blame.
Tags: DoD , Sequestration , American Society of Military Comptrollers , Lou Crenshaw , Grant Thornton , Workforce , Financial management , Auditability , Jared Serbu
Sequestration claims another conference: DHS's GFirst cyber event
U.S. CERT said in an email to organizers the current budgetary environment wouldn't support the annual cybersecurity conference
Tags: conferences , Sequestration , DHS , GFirst , cybersecurity , US CERT , Jason Miller
BRAC-like commission proposed to hunt down government cost savings
A new commission, proposed by David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general, would recommend ways to streamline government by removing duplication and extraneous spending from government agencies. Federal-employee unions criticized the proposal and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lawmakers expressed skepticism that such a proposal could gain congressional approval.
Tags: budget , oversight , Congress , best practices , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , John Mica , Carolyn Maloney , David Walker , Stephen Goldsmith , Elaine Kamarck , J. David Cox , Government Transformation Initiative , AFGE , Reinventing Government
Senators push Tangherlini for assurances GSA is improving
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee members support Dan Tangherlini to be the permanent administrator of the General Services Administration. Lawmakers, however, wanted more answers about the troubled SAM program and the recent IG report on management interference of contract negotiations.
Tags: Acquisition , GSA , Dan Tangherlini , Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Co , Tom Carper , Tom Coburn , Claire McCaskill , System for Award Management , Jason Miller
Contractors with security clearances lack path to report problems
Government contractors with security clearances, such as Edward Snowden, aren't legally protected from whistleblowing even by going through the proper channels. But John Mahoney, of the law firm Tully Rinckey, said Snowden should have defaulted to the standard whistleblowing procedure used by government employees in the intelligence community, who are protected under the law.
Tags: NSA , Intelligence Community , Workforce , whistleblower protections , John Mahoney , Tully Rinckey , Melissa Dawkins
NSA leak case gives vendors reason to reevaluate personnel
Intelligence community contractors, similar to Booz Allen, likely are reevaluating employees who have access to classified information in order to identify any questionable personnel, according to Steve Ryan, leader of government strategies practice group at McDermott, Will and Emery law firm.
Tags: industry , Workforce , Steve Ryan , McDermott, Will and Emery , Rob Levinson , Bloomberg , security clearances , NSA , NSA leaks , Melissa Dawkins
USPS reaches energy reduction goal ahead of schedule
USPS Chief Sustainability Officer Thomas Day said the service is on target to reach many of its sustainability goals for 2015. USPS said the decline in mail volume led to the consolidation of mail distribution centers.
Tags: USPS , sustainability , green government , In Depth , Francis Rose , Thomas Day , Cogan Schneier
GAO: Agencies should expand TechStat reviews to all high-risk projects
Federal agencies need to step up their use of TechStat sessions, the Government Accountability Office concluded in a new report. The face-to-face meetings of IT officials and agency leaders have been put to use by the Office of Management and Budget and individual agencies to turn around or terminate dozens of failing IT projects. But only about a third of the agency projects deemed most at risk of cost overruns or schedule slips have undergone the reviews, GAO reported.
Tags: TechStat , OMB , IT , Commerce , HHS , DHS , USDA , Jack Moore
Conversation with Authors: Implementing Cross-Agency Collaboration: A Guide for Federal Managers with Dr. Jane Fountain
Federal agencies and academics have long discussed the importance of cross-agency collaboration.
Jane Fountain
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Director, National Center for Digital Government Gordon Hall
Tags: IBM Center for the Business of Government , IBM Business of Government
