Agency Oversight
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Keith Thurston will work with Dave McClure on e-government efforts as will the Data.gov team. GSA also is hiring full-time employees to help the assorted CXO councils.
August 18, 2010 -
A new study aims to break the stereotype involved with the end of the fiscal year.
August 18, 2010 -
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Agency issues RFI looking for the right person from the public or private sector. The position includes outreach to user communities and identifying new technologies to make information more accessible to the public.
August 18, 2010 -
Afghanistan\'s president is issuing an ultimatum to thousands of private security contractors he says are undermining his nation\'s army and police force: Cease operations in four months. Mike Thibault, Co-Chairman of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, joins us with reaction.
August 18, 2010 -
The Obama administration invited banking executives Tuesday to offer advice on changing the government\'s role in the mortgage market. Their response: stay big. Details from Silla Brush, financial reporter with The Hill newspaper
August 18, 2010 -
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The National Park service has turned to college students to solve a personnel shortfall
August 17, 2010 -
After almost 50 years of service, Frank Anderson is retiring.
August 16, 2010 -
EPA, NASA and Transportation receive two honors each in different categories. Overall 17 agencies received all green scores on the Open Government dashboard.
August 16, 2010 -
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he will step down next year. He had been expected to leave before the end of President Barack Obama\'s first term in 2012.
August 16, 2010 -
With anticipated labor shortages, Agencies need to hire staff while reducing recruitment costs. Aon\'s recruitment solutions help agencies reduce recruitment spend and time to fill by more than fifty percent, and improves hiring manager satisfaction by more than seventy-five percent. Aon processed over one hundred thousand applicants for an agency and hired in excess of seventeen hundred diverse employees. The agency benefited with a new hires that were more successful during training and better matched to the job.
August 13, 2010 -
Five days after proposing controversial cuts in Pentagon spending, much of official Washington still is reeling. Defense Secretary Gates called for $100 billion in spending reductions over the next five years. Some of the proposals to achieve those savings are finding mixed reaction among officials on Capitol Hill and in industry.
August 13, 2010