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Although the President’s cabinet team is in place, a number of important positions are still waiting to be filled. The Treasury Department is one agency with high-level positions still vacant. This week the Senate Finance…
June 09, 2009 -
The bookkeeping angle of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was the subject of a meeting of the Association of Government Accountants. Ed deSeve holds the multiple titles of Special Advisor to the President; Assistant…
June 09, 2009 -
Every four years, the Pentagon is tasked to produce a Quadrennial Defense Review. A big component of the forthcoming review will be the disposition of US forces overseas. The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs…
June 09, 2009 -
The General Services Administration has named Danielle Germain as the agency’s chief of staff, replacing Cathleen C. Kronopolus, who has been acting chief of staff since January. Most recently, Germain worked at the National Academy…
June 09, 2009 -
Former CIA official Philip Mudd withdrew his name from consideration for the job of intelligence chief at the Department of Homeland Security. Mudd was President Obama’s nominee but decided to drop because senators in his…
June 08, 2009 - DorobekInsider.com: Friday’s Federal News Radio Book Club – Fired Up or Burned Out – the liner notes
Shockingly enough, the Federal News Radio Book Club “meeting” is coming up this Friday at 2p ET on Federal News Radio 1500 AM’s In Depth with Francis Rose – and, of course, on FederalNewsRadio.com. The…
June 08, 2009 -
Shockingly enough, the Federal News Radio Book Club “meeting” is coming up this Friday at 2p ET on Federal News Radio 1500 AM’s In Depth with Francis Rose – and, of course, on FederalNewsRadio.com. The…
June 08, 2009 -
Business intelligence — it is one of the buzz words that floats around these days. But what is it anyway? Bob Ghafouri is president and chief executive of Cadence Quest, and we asked him to…
June 05, 2009 -
FedExperience launched last fall. It is a pilot project with the Department of Treasury, which is designed to help the federal government develop models to bring experienced talent into public service. Tim McManus is the…
June 05, 2009 -
A series of hearings hosted by the Defense Acquisition Panel of the House Armed Services Committee is looking at making the acquisition process work better. Wednesday’s hearing was titled Coordinating Requirements, Budgets, and Acquisition: How…
June 05, 2009 -
Soldiers at Forward Operating Base Shank in Afghanistan recently became the first to experience a new portable recreation center contained in a metal box. It holds a big screen TV, telephones for calls back home, two computers for e-mail access, and three video game consoles. Eventually, ten of the units will be sent to Afghanistan, and ten more to Iraq. Soldiers who have used them call them a \"little piece of home.\" I\'m Max Cacas
June 04, 2009 -
Questions for the nominee to head the General Services Administration, former GSA Chief of Staff Martha Johnson, ranged from surplus properties to the Networx contract. She answered questions from the members of the Senate Homeland…
June 04, 2009 -
Cybersecurity, personnel, and contracting issues punctuated the confirmation hearing of Rand Beers to become Under Secretary for National Protection and Programs at the Department of Homeland Security. His nomination hearing was Tuesday afternoon, in the…
June 04, 2009 -
The emphasis on transparency is creating a convergence of privacy, security, and transparency policy. Former DHS Chief Privacy Officer Hugo Teufel told me about sorting out the three challenges, and striking the right balance among…
June 03, 2009 -
FederalNewsRadio’s Jason Miller snagged the first interview with new federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra since Mr. Chopra was confirmed to his position. The interview took place at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk…
June 03, 2009