Budget

• David Haun: A long view of federal management

  You learn a thing or two after 35 years in federal management. David Haun led efforts at the Office of Management and Budget during creation of the Homeland Security Department. More recently, he's managed OMB's oversight portfolio for departments that together spend $150 billion a year. He's received just about all the awards a career civil servant can. Now he's joined the public sector practice at Grant Thornton and Thursday joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to share what big management hurdles remain for the federal government.

  Federal Drive

  November 19, 2015
• Tax system ‘increasingly at risk,’ says IRS advisory council

  A shrinking budget amid growing expectations from lawmakers and taxpayers could do serious harm to the Internal Revenue Service, according to an IRS advisory council report.

  Agency Oversight

  November 19, 2015
• OMB’s Mader confident to get 2016 budget deal by Dec. 11

  Dave Mader, the acting deputy director for management and controller at OMB, said negotiations with Congress are going well to get agencies funded before the current continuing resolution ends Dec. 11.

  Budget

  November 18, 2015
• Lawmakers demand higher NIH funding from House Appropriations

  As agencies demand more funding from Congress in the fiscal 2016 budget, many members want the National Institutes of Health to receive what the Senate Appropriations Committee has already approved.

  Budget

  November 18, 2015
• The state of federal technology: ‘A crisis bigger than Y2K’

  Federal chief information officer Tony Scott said agencies are spending too much of their money on legacy technology that can’t easily be secured, and the people who have built and supported it are leaving government service. HUD, EPA, SSA and the Patent and Trademark Office are among the agencies trying to transform their IT infrastructures.

  Management

  November 18, 2015
• For CFOs, recent laws make their roles more complicated

  Chief financial officers often see some of the same challenges in hiring and recruiting financial managers, producing cost information and performance and risk management that they encountered 25 years ago.

  Management

  November 17, 2015
• Improving transparency through FITARA

  Cask LLC Director Mark Larson and AFEI President David Cheseborough will discuss how FITARA is helping agencies improve transparency and the efficiency of federal IT projects. November 17, 2016

  Federal Tech Talk

  November 16, 2015
• Despite lower funding level, two-year budget deal is ‘huge’ for Pentagon

  Despite lower funding levels, Defense leaders count their blessings with two years of budget certainty.

  Defense

  November 16, 2015
• GSA urges DHS headquarters funding from Congress in 2016 budget

  With less than a month left for Congress to pass a budget for fiscal 2016, the General Services Administration is making its case to secure funding for the Department of Homeland Security's long-awaited new headquarters.

  Management

  November 13, 2015
• For USPS, another year, another mixed financial report

  The Postal Service continues to press for substantial legislation changes to remain a competitor in the mail and package delivery field. It recorded its ninth consecutive year of billion dollar losses.

  Budget

  November 13, 2015
• DLA moves toward a new era in contracting

  The Defense Logistics Agency is trying to expand the way it uses performance-based logistics to better the products used by service members.

  Defense

  November 12, 2015
• Acquisition policy and the NDAA

  Jon Etherton, president of Etherton & Associates Inc., joins host Roger Waldron to discuss the state of commercial item acquisition, contract duplication and the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act. November 10, 2015

  Off the Shelf

  November 09, 2015
• David Hawkings: Budget framework not the same as budget bill

  On Capitol Hill, the work is never done. True, a seemingly landmark, two-year budget deal passed. No government shutdown? Not so fast. A budget framework isn't the same as a budget bill with dollar details. CQ Roll Call's David Hawkings joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer analysis of what comes next under the dome of mystery.

  Federal Drive

  November 09, 2015
• Privatizing The IRS, are you next?

  There are at least two schools of thought about repeated congressional efforts to privatize the IRS, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey. The government could save a lot of money if it could get rid of 90,000 IRS workers and let the private sector do it, for a fee, or squeeze it enough so it falls further behind in collections, and complete the self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Mike Causey

  November 09, 2015