Agency Oversight

  • Does acquiring or developing a system incrementally equate to managing it incrementally? In a word, the answer is \"no.\" Randolph C. Hite is the director of IT Architecture and Systems Issues at the Government Accountability Office.

    December 09, 2010
  • The biggest issue facing chief information officers in 2011 is hiring. A new Robert Half Technology survey found CIOs are concerned that they will have a hard time finding skilled information security professionals to fill…

    December 09, 2010
  • The telework bill for federal employees was signed into law today.

    December 09, 2010
  • At one conference, the Government Contract Management Conference, we learn about plans for a NEW conference from NASA\'s Joanne Woytek.

    December 09, 2010
  • Between budget and acquisition reform, things are changing fast in procurement at the Defense Department. Dayton Aerospace\'s Gary Poleskey gives us his view.

    December 09, 2010
  • The USPS OIG has completed a new report to determined if contracting officers issued letters to contracting officer\'s representatives detailing their responsibilities and limitations and if invoices were properly certified. To explain what the means for us is the Postal Service\'s Judy Leonhardt.

    December 09, 2010
  • The Merit Systems Protection Board is well know for its workforce research studies, but how does it decide what to study? We learn more about it from MSPB\'s Laura Shugrue.

    December 09, 2010
  • GCMC is an annual conference which provides premier professional development and networking opportunities to the greatest minds in the contracting, acquisition, and procurement fields. We learn more from conference chair Terry Raney.

    December 09, 2010
  • More than 800 contracting, acquisition, and procurement professionals from both government and private industry will gather in Arlington, Virginia, for NCMA\'s 29th Annual Government Contract Management Conference. WFED\'s Tom Temin gives us a preview.

    December 09, 2010
  • The House measure wraps all the unfinished annual spending bills into a single catchall measure while freezing spending at last year\'s levels. One of the biggest surprises in the act is the inclusion of a two year pay freeze as proposed by President Obama.

    December 09, 2010
  • The Federal Protective Service is putting posters in 9,000 federal buildings this week, along with a special toll-free hotline, urging federal workers to report suspicious activity.

    December 08, 2010
  • Pat Niehaus, the National President of the Federal Managers Association, discusses how federal employees have become the country\'s scapegoats.

    December 08, 2010
  • The \"FY 2011 Year Long Funding Act\" contains language that will linger on long after the year is over. The Hill\'s Ian Swanson explains.

    December 08, 2010
  • The Department of Homeland Security gets more Freedom of Information Act requests than any other agency. It\'s now assembling a new set of processes that will centralize requests by individuals who want to know what data the agency is storing about them.

    December 08, 2010