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PRC to analyze impact of changing Saturday mail delivery
The U.S. Postal Service continues to insist changes are necessary to help deal with budget woes in the face of congressional resistance. The Postal Service also is accelerating the closure of 53 mail processing plants.
Tags: Congress , management , budget , PRC , Gerry Connolly , Darrell Issa , Tom Coburn , Larry Frum
Technology Innovation at the Census Bureau
What is the U.S. Census Bureau's technology innovation strategy? How is Census using new technologies to improve services and products? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and more with Avi Bender, Chief Technology Officer, U.S. Census Bureau.
Avi Bender
Chief Technology Officer
Census Bureau
Tags: management , Business of Government Hour , IBM Center for the Business of Government , Avi Bender
Congress urged to drop online financial reporting for senior execs
A new report says a law requiring the online posting of senior federal executives' financial information would likely impinge on employees' privacy and wouldn't do much to deter conflicts of interest. The National Academy of Public Administration was tasked by Congress with studying the STOCK Act — short for "Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge" — in response to concerns about privacy and identify theft.
Tags: NAPA , STOCK Act , management , insider trading , financial disclosure , Congress , oversight , workforce , SES , Jack Moore
Conversation with Authors: Professor Harry Lambright
Prof. Harry Lambright on Leaders and
Leadership - Lessons from Robert Gates,
Francis Collins, and NASA Administrators
W. Henry Lambright
Professor of Public Administration,
International Affairs, and Political Science
and Director of the Science and Technology
Policy Program
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs
Syracuse University
Tags: management , IBM Center for the Business of Government , Business of Government Hour
Air Force meets fuel efficiency goal several years early
In 2006, the service aimed to cut its fuel use by 10 percent. By 2012, it had reduced consumption by 12 percent.
Tags: DoD , Air Force , Energy , BRAC , sequestration , Jamie Morin , green government , management , Jared Serbu
Graduate School USA bringing EA back into vogue
Brian Moran, a lecturer at the Graduate School
USA, is leading an effort to reinvigorate the
enterprise architecture curriculum.
February 28, 2013
Tags: technology , management , training , Brian Moran , Graduate School USA , enterprise architecture , cloud computing , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller , Top Leaders in Federal Service
Senate panel endorses Jewell for Interior chief
Tags: Sally Jewell , Interior , Cabinet , management
Doubts remain over VA's ability to end huge disability claims backlog
VA officials still insist the 630,000 disability claims waiting to be processed will be eliminated by 2015. But so far, numbers are headed in the wrong direction and House Veterans Affairs Committee members are losing patience.
Tags: VA , VBMS , disability claims backlog , Congress , House Veterans Affairs Committee , Jeff Miller , Michael Michaud , Kevin McCarthy , Jared Serbu , technology , management , Allison Hickey
USDA seeks authority to transfer funds to offset sequestration cuts
Agriculture Department Secretary Tom Vilsack can move money in-between accounts within the same bureau, but not across the agency under a special provision called Interchange Authority. Vilsack has officially asked Congress for use of that authority in an effort to stunt the negative effects of sequestration at his agency. At at recent House hearing, Republican lawmakers questioned why more agencies haven't movasked Congress for similar permission.
Tags: management , budget , sequestration , Michael Young , USDA , Hari Sastry , Commerce , FCC , David Robbins , Paul Gosar , Blake Farenthold , Darrell Issa , Elijah Cummings , Matt Cartwright , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , reprogramming authorities
GSA in desperate need of funds to repair federal buildings
For the third year in a row, Congress is unlikely to give GSA enough money to repair and maintain federal buildings. Acting GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini told House lawmakers Tuesday that the government isn't spending the 2-to-4 percent industry average to keep buildings operating well.
Tags: management , GSA , Dan Tangherlini , DHS , federal property management , House Appropriations Committee , Freeze the Footprint , Jason Miller
