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Host Mark Amtower interviews American Small Business Coalition Chief Visionary Officer Guy Timberlake. They will talk about the goals and mission of the organization. February 6, 2012(Encore presentation March 5, 2012)
John Powers, a principal with Deloitte Consulting, specializes in the company\'s mergers and acquisitions practice. JoAnn Boutelle is a former deputy chief financial officer with the Defense Department and is now a partner at Deloitte & Touche. Along with former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.),. Powers and Boutelle joined
A new letter, signed by Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), calls on the Office of Management and Budget to take on the \"urgent matter\" of processing federal retirements. The letter comes a week after a Senate subcommittee hearing in which the Office of Personnel Management was taken to task for its handling of the longstanding backlog.
As Pentagon budgets become tighter, the Defense Department is looking for ways to cut costs in weapons systems. But the only way to make cuts is to know how and where money is being spent. Ostensibly, the full lifecycle-cost estimates for DoD\'s major acquisition programs are collected in the Pentagon\'s selected acquisition report — or SAR. Cary Russell, the acting director for defense capabilities and management issues at GAO, told In Depth with Francis Rose the reports contain \"inconsistent\" information.
Pam Turner, managing director at the Prime Policy Group, said most inquiries from the Hill to federal agencies go through the agency\'s office of legislative affairs.
A bill in the House would prohibit within-grade pay increases through 2012 for federal employees.
The Air Force plans to further reduce its ranks by 9,900 airmen as part of DoD\'s overall budget reductions. The personnel cuts tilt heavily toward the Air National Guard.
A survey of more than 35,000 college and university students found only 2.3 percent plan to work in the federal government after leaving school.
Members of the faculty at National Defense University\'s iCollege join host Derrick Dortch to talk about the school and how it can benefit federal managers. February 3, 2012(Encore presentation February 10, 2012)
President Barack Obama announced Friday his plans to nominate Joseph Jordan, a former Small Business Administration official, to head the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
Budget pressures could delay some of the General Services Administration\'s building projects — or scrap them altogether. Art Turowski, a senior vice president with the Government Investor Services group in Jones Lang LaSalle, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what the new spending numbers mean for the government\'s large-scale construction projects.
Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president for national security and procurement policy at TechAmerica, and Frank Reeder, the founder of The Reeder Group, count down the top federal news stories of the week.
Luke McCormack will move to the department from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement directorate at the Homeland Security Department. He takes over for Van Hitch who retired in July.
Many agencies are not as gung-ho on telework as the Obama Administration or lawmakers would have it, according to a recent Congressional Research Service survey. The Department of Veterans Affairs allows just one-tenth of its employees to telework. At other agencies, most workers who are eligible to telework do not.