Budget
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday he wants to trim some of the billions of dollars the Pentagon spends on weapons systems and contractor services, part of a Pentagon-wide effort to find $100 billion in savings in the next five years. Todd Harrison with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments has suggestions for starting points.
June 30, 2010 -
Auditors looked at 117 employee conversations to career positions from political ones and found most followed the rules. OPM is reviewing five of the seven that GAO determined to be improper.
June 30, 2010 -
A new Inspector General audit finds FEMA failed to resolve some ongoing weaknesses. Inspectors also found a host of new vulnerabilities around cybersecurity and data backup.
June 30, 2010 -
As agencies try to hire hundreds of trained cybersecurity experts in the coming years, there are questions about whether that need can be met. Some observers wonder whether there really are enough cybersecurity workers.
June 30, 2010 -
White House says it will review programs that are in the most trouble, and terminate them if neccessary.
June 29, 2010 -
Specifically, the protection that Public Company Accounting Oversight Board members receive has been ruled unconstitutional.
June 29, 2010 -
Undersecretary Carter says vendors providing services and weapons systems must figure out how to do more with less. He says DoD will create a preferred supplier program.
June 29, 2010 -
This week, host Ruben Gomez talks with Tony Placido, Chief of Intelligence at the DEA. July 8, 2010
June 29, 2010 -
Competitive hiring for government jobs leaves recent college graduates behind. The Partnership for Public Service\'s John Palguta says it doesn\'t have to be that way. He explains.
June 29, 2010 -
The first graduates of a new leadership training program run by the Office of Personnel Management received their certificates yesterday. They are, as OPM Director John Berry describes them, the \"tip of the spear\" of a cadre of up-and-coming federal workers who are honing their leadership skills to be the next generation of agency leaders and executives who will run the government.
June 29, 2010 -
The administration issues two new memos focusing on all IT projects and specifically on financial management systems. OMB will issue guidance in the next month detailing how they will evaluate which programs are at most risk. OMB\'s Zients says programs worth more than $10 billion are significantly off track in cost, schedule or both.
June 29, 2010 -
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We get analysis from Homeland Security Today editor David Silverberg.
June 28, 2010 -
The Postal Service inspector general says the agency overpaid $75 billion into the Civil Service Retirement System from 1972 to 2009. Michael Thompson, Director of Capital Investments for the Postal Service Office of Inspector General, explains.
June 28, 2010