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OMB wants 10 percent cut in 2015 budget requests
New guidance requires agencies to reduce discretionary spending requests for 2015 by reducing duplication and consolidating like programs across the government.
Tags: management , budget , Sylvia Burwell , program duplication , Jason Miller
Former OMB performance guru Metzenbaum lands new job
Shelley Metzenbaum is now the president of the Volcker Alliance, a non-partisan group trying to improve trust in government. Metzenbaum left the Obama administration earlier this month.
Tags: Shelley Metzenbaum , Volcker Alliance , government performance , performance management , Paul Volcker
New mobile tools give agencies ‘giant innovation permission slip'
On the one-year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy, the Office of Management and Budget highlighted the progress being made to make agency information and systems device-agnostic. Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel said mobile is the new default platform.
Tags: Digital Government Strategy , Steven VanRoekel , open data , mobile , apps , APIs , technology , Jason Miller , GSA
5 percent of federal workforce to be furloughed Friday
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, Internal Revenue Service, Office of Management and Budget and the Environmental Protection Agency will all shut down Friday because of widespread employee furloughs — giving feds a four-day holiday weekend. The Labor and Interior Departments also are telling employees to stay home.
Tags: workforce , furloughs , sequestration , IRS , HUD , EPA , Labor , Interior , Jason Miller
OMB director taps VanRoekel to lead management team
Steve VanRoekel will continue to be the federal CIO, in addition to taking on new management responsibilities at OMB. Norman Dong will lead OMB's Federal Financial Management Office.
Tags: Steven VanRoekel , people
OMB reworking financial system requirements to focus on outcomes, not inputs
The administration is expected to release a new directive in the coming weeks to update Circular A-127, which defines how agencies operate their financial systems. The new guidance is expected to open the market up to vendors and make it easier for agencies to transition to shared service providers.
Tags: technology , shared services , Adam Goldberg , Treasury , Keith Trippie , DHS , Gwynne Kostin , GSA , Kirit Amin , Commerce , Management of Change Conference , ACT-IAC , Jason Miller
Obama appoints Danny Werfel acting IRS head
President Barack Obama has appointed senior White House budget officer Daniel Werfel to be acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, a White House official says.
Tags: IRS , Danny Werfel , IRS scandal , Steven Miller
GAO, OMB spar over whether to measure data center cost savings
Government auditors told House Oversight and Government Affairs members that saving money from closing more than 1,000 data centers needs to be metric. OMB said optimization of core data centers is a more important measure than straight cost savings.
Tags: technology , data center consolidation , GAO , David Powner , House Oversight and Government Reform Committee , Bernie Mazer , Interior , GSA , PortfolioStat , Jason Miller
Inside the Reporter's Notebook: The CIO shuffle continues; the last E-gov benefits report?
News and buzz in the acquisition and IT communities that you may have missed this week.
Tags: technology , Inside the Reporters Notebook , people , DOT , State , USDA , e-government , Cheryl Cook , Lisa Schlosser , Richard McKinney , Steven Taylor , GSA , Dave McClure , Jason Miller , exclusive
Open data order, policy ushers in new norm
President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order and OMB released a new policy requiring agencies to make data machine-readable and use open standards. Agencies must develop an inventory of information and make it publicly available. Good government groups praised the changes but had some concerns around the administration's decision to apply the policy only to structured data.
Tags: technology , open data , Steve VanRoekel , Patrice McDermott , OpenTheGovernment.org , Digital Government Strategy , John Wonderlich , Sunlight Foundation , Kevin Richards , TechAmerica , Jason Miller
