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Can you SAVE the government?
OMB wants federal employees to submit ideas for how to reduce spending and make agency services more efficient. The winner will present their idea to the President and it will be included in the 2011 budget.
Tags: mngt , Jeffrey Zients , President Obama , Peter Orszag , Ken Baer , DoJ , SAVE Awards
Jeffrey Zients and Christina Romer
Tags: federal agencies , Travel cuts , Christina Romer , unemployment , August jobless numbers , Bureau of Labor Statistics , White House
OMB's FY10 Mid-Session Budget Review - What's Different, What's Missing?
What's missing and what's different from a standard, annual federal report is often just as telling as what is included in the report.
Tags: FY10 Budget , Peter Orszag , Jim Nussle , Barack Obama
Dee Lee lets loose
Deidre Lee
Executive Vice President
Professional Services Council
August 31st, 2009
Tags: contracting , Federal Procurement , federal acquisition , OFPP , GAO , DCAA , oversight , Deidre Lee , PSC
Travel card programs need better internal controls
CRS report details options for Congress to improve the troubled program.
Tags: mngt , Congressional Research Service , GAO , Charles Grassley , Joe Wilson , Center for Democracy and Technology , Travel card program , inspectors general
DorobekInsider: It’s my birthday, but… you get the gifts
Tags: collaboration , contracting , DorobekInsider , Federal News Radio , Federal News Radio Book Club , government 2.0 , management , policy , technology , Web 2.0 , White House , books , procurement , transparency
White House wants 2011 budgets to reflect science and tech priorities
The White House wants agencies to shift priorities as they develop their fiscal 2011 budget submissions to focus more on the administration's science and technology priorities.
Tags: technology , mngt , Peter Orszag , John Holdren , White House , Office of Science and Technology Policy , budget
Senate: Curb abuse of fed contract award fee rollovers
In the private sector, it's not unusual for a vendor to have incentive clauses written into a contract, but in federal contracting, agencies sometimes employ the practice of "rollovers", extending additional opportunities to earn bonuses even to contractors who come up short on their contractual performance. And that is a matter of concern for one Senate oversight committee.
Tags: mngt , contracting , Tom Carper , Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management , Government Information , Jeffrey Zients ,
White House launches governmentwide review of information sharing
President appoints Mike Resnick to be the new senior director for information sharing policy. Congress questions how the White House position will mesh with the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment.
Tags: mngt , Thomas McNamara , John Brennan , Mike Resnick , National Security Council , Markle Foundation , Jeffrey Smith , information sharing , identity management , privacy , civil liberties
President nominates Werfel to be OMB controller
He also nominates new CPSC commissioner and chairwoman of Merit Systems Protection Board.
Tags: mngt , contracting , P&B , Daniel Werfel , Frank Kendall , Susan Tsui Grundmann , Anne Northup , Anne Wagner , DoD , MSPB , CPSC
