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OMB Comptroller Danny Werfel wants to shake up Fed financial management
He mapped out the philosophy behind the change he wants to see in federal financial management, and how his colleagues will have to change as well.
Tags: technology , management , Danny Werfel
OMB's Werfel outlines future for financial managers
The Obama Administration is mapping out its plans for significant changes in federal financial management. Yesterday morning, the White House's top financial manager outlined those plans for his government colleagues in an appearance at the Willard Hotel.
Tags: management , AGA , Danny Werfel , Max Cacas
White House pushing agencies toward better customer service
New report from the Modernizing IT forum details the next steps OMB and agencies will take. The administration wants to focus on IT program management and customer service.
Tags: management , technology , White House , CIO Council , Modernizing IT forum , customer service , IT program management , TechStat , IT Dashboard
Agencies count on federal financial managers
In the federal government, they wield spreadsheets, strive for "clean audit opinions", and are the first line of defense in accounting for the spending of taxpayer dollars. "They" are the top federal CFOs and financial managers, and yesterday, they met here in Washington to discuss their profession.
Tags: management , FSIO , JFMIP , Chief Financial Officers , CFO Council , GAO , Gene Dodaro , OPM , Mark Reger , Treasury , HHS , Sheila Conley , President Obama , Max Cacas
OMB's Zients touts better hiring, retention of feds
The White House Chief Performance Officer, and Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget, speaks to the National Treasury Employees Union legislative conference about the role federal workers play in improving the performance management of the federal government.
Tags: P&B , Jeffrey Zients , NTEU , HUD , hiring process , Max Cacas
OMB to issue financial systems overhaul guidelines
The White House has released a consolidated financial report for the entire government. But the Government Accountability Office says the information is, for the most part, flawed.
Tags: mngt , financial management , GAO , Deloitte , Tim Young , Dorothy Ramienski
NTEU concerned about fed worker safety
One of the largest Federal employee labor unions is in the second day of its three-day legislative conference, held yearly in Washington. The National Treasury Employees Union is pressing for things like collective bargaining rights for Transportation Security Administration screeners while also expressing its concern for the safety of all feds at their workplaces.
Tags: newsstand , employee safety , NTEU , Colleen Kelley , IRS , Austin , TIGTA , TSA , Barbara Mikulski , Nita Lowey , collective bargaining rights , Jeffrey Zeints , chief performance officer , Max Cacas
OMB taking a deeper look at data centers
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra will sign a memo requiring agencies to do another, more detailed survey of their data centers. Agencies also are working on a department-wide plan to consolidate these buildings.
Tags: technology , Vivek Kundra , Van Hitch , Richard Spires , Michael Duffy , DHS , Treasury , Justice , CIO Council , AFCEA , data center consolidation , cloud computing
DorobekINSIDER: AFCEA Homeland Security Conference panel on cyber-security — the liner notes
Tags: DHS , Events , homeland security , management , Networks and telecom , regulation , technology , oversight , security , strategy
OIRA head Cass Sunstein is rethinking the mindset of regulation
Many federal government watchers think the former Harvard Law Professor has turned OIRA into a 'living laboratory' for writing government regulations based on behavioral economics.
Tags: management , Cass Sunstein , OIRA , Peter Orszag , DOT , Ray Lahood , American University's Washington College of Law , President Obama , Max Cacas , American University
