Management

  • Marco Giamberardino, senior director of the Federal and Heavy Construction Division at the Associated General Contractors of America, discusses the administration\'s efforts to streamline the federal permitting process.

    January 30, 2012
  • Department is calling for better internal communication to ensure records managers are on the same page. VA will offer credit monitoring to more than 2,000 veterans.

    January 30, 2012
  • The Air Force expects to cut its end strength by roughly 10,000 under the new DoD strategy the Pentagon revealed last week. Also the Army\'s service chief indicated DoD plans to ask Congress for two more rounds of base realignments and closures.

    January 30, 2012
  • Gordon Adams, a professor of international relations at American University and former associate director at the Office of Management and Budget, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what the new DoD budget really means.

    January 27, 2012
  • The Pentagon has unveiled details of a 10-year strategy for defense cuts — including reductions in military pay and benefits. But before any large-scale changes are made, service members should be given a chance to voice their opinions of their compensation packages, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary, a prominent defense think tanks argues. \"The Pentagon is already starting to move to make changes in the compensation system,\" said CSBA senior fellow Todd Harrison. \"And basically our point here is before we start tinkering with things, before we start making changes we need to understand first how service members actually view different parts of their compensation package.\"

    January 27, 2012
  • Jon Desenberg, a senior policy director at The Performance Institute, and Jason Miller, Federal News Radio\'s executive editor, count down the top federal news stories of the week.

    January 27, 2012
  • Aneesh Chopra, the White House\'s first chief technology officer, is stepping down, the White House has confirmed.

    January 27, 2012
  • The Pentagon begins the process of revealing its budget plan for fiscal year 2013. The proposal includes the scaling back of several weapons systems, savings on personnel costs, along with an assurance from top DoD officials that even though the military will be smaller, it will be more agile and more capable.

    January 27, 2012
  • The Federal Drive spoke with a panel of experts about the lessons learned from NSPS and the future of pay-for-performance in the federal government. Pat Tamburrino, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Civilian Personnel Policy Patrick Nealon, Director of Deloitte Consulting LLP\'s Federal Total Rewards practice Bob Tobias, former member of the Defense Business Board task group that studied NSPS

    January 27, 2012
  • The FTC is teaming with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to coordinate and protect consumers.

    January 27, 2012
  • Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and former assistant Defense secretary for manpower and logistics, has analysis with The Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

    January 27, 2012
  • Agencies are struggling to keep up with the tremendous amount of data being created every day. DIA deputy director David Shedd said too much information and not having the right IT to sift through it is the biggest remaining challenge the government faces. Kshemendra Paul, the program manager for the Information Sharing Environment, said tagging and standards, such as NIEM, could help solve the data deluge.

    January 27, 2012
  • Richard Spires said the Homeland Security Department has more than 130 human resources systems and that\'s too many. He said an intra agency group recently completed a segment architecture of HR technology to figure out where they can consolidate systems and find savings. January 26, 2012

    January 26, 2012
  • Jim Dalkin, director of financial management and assurance issues at GAO, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the updated auditing standards and what it means for GAO\'s work.

    January 26, 2012