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Institutionalizing Budget Cuts

Cutting and trimming without really making a difference

Tags: budget , Obama , OMB ,

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Summing Up

This is my last, weekly Op-Ed on Federal News Radio, and I want our listeners to know that I appreciate the wonderful support, emails, and comments you have made over the past year.

Tags: Lurita Doan , Federal News Radio , Leadership Matters , stimulus , federal budget , contracting , small business , deficit , job creation ,

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The future of transparency and how to successfully develop trust

Kim Kobza, President and CEO of Neighborhood America, explains that it isn't just the federal government that has to be more open; state and local governments need to get in on the action, too.

Tags: management , technology , Vivek Kundra , Aneesh Chopra , White House , Open Government Directive , transparency , Neighborhood America , Kim Kobza , Dorothy Ramienski

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Coburn wants to know why USAspending.gov is delayed

Sen. Tom Coburn is pressing his former legislative partner on the implementation of the Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act.

Tags: contracting , Tom Coburn , OMB , USASpending.gov , FFATA

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Improvements to Grants.gov at least 90 days away

Agency data on alternatives will help HHS make decisions

Tags: technology , Sheila Conley , HHS , OMB , General Dynamics , IT , Grants.gov , grants

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Turf wars biggest challenge for CTO

CRS report highlights potential overlap across government

Tags: tech , mngt , President Barack Obama , Vivek Kundra , OMB , White House , DHS , National Security Council , NSC , FCC , John Seely Brown , Xerox , CTO , e-government , cybersecurity

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OMB tells agencies to ignore ruling on small business contracting

GAO say parity among 8(a), service disabled and HUBZone programs is no longer valid.

Tags: contracting , OMB , GAO , GSA , SBA , small business , 8(a) , HUBZone , Service-disabled veteran owned small business

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OMB addressing 'chronic' USASpending.gov issues

Data collected through the Recovery Act will be used as a pilot to obtain subcontract and subaward data from all contracts. The Obama administration says previous attempts failed get subcontract.

Tags: technology , contracting , Sen. Tom Coburn , OMB , USASpending.gov , FFATA

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Four major agencies to stop using Grants.gov

OMB asks agencies to come up with $6 million to upgrade current system

Tags: technology , Tom Gavin , OMB , GSA , DoD , Justice , Education , DHS , HHS , Turner Consulting Group , David Cassidy , Grants.gov , FedBizOpps.gov

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OMB to hold senior officials more accountable for government waste

President Obama will issue an executive order in the next week detailing steps agencies must take to reduce the amount of improper payments. OMB will set up a new online dashboard to track these expenditures, similar to the one for IT projects. Executive order also will implement stricter requirements for contractors to report overpayments.

Tags: management , Daniel Werfel , Tom Carper , Patrick Murphy , OMB , HHS , improper payments , Medicare , Recovery audits , CFO , Agriculture , Defense , Education , DHS , DOT , VA

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