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The Defense Department\'s new strategic management plan includes changes to the department\'s previous business goals, as well as new areas DoD plans to focus on in the coming year.
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Steve Kelman, a professor of public management at Harvard University\'s Kennedy School of Government and the former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, said in an in interview on In Depth with Francis Rose that agencies should consider a range of options to find contracting savings. His own list of cost-savings tips runs the gamut from \"Nobody\'s ever done this,\" to \"So old, it\'s new again.\"
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Unions, management associations and agencies will continue to meet through September 2013 to discuss issues from employee evaluations to bargaining over office space and technology. President Barack Obama signed an executive order extending the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, the President\'s Management Advisory Board and seven other advisory committees.
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How exactly does an agency store a tweet? And how do agencies know when the latest 140-character mini-message rises to the level of a permanently valuable historical record? A new Presidential memo tasks the National Archives and Records Administration with answer these social-media stumpers.
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Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said he\'s disappointed in the supercommittee\'s failure to reach a deal, and he called the looming automatic cuts launched by the sequester \"draconian.\" If the deepest cuts are enacted — about 8 to 9 percent in cuts to annual agency budgets — feds should prepare for the worst, he said.
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Alexander Bolton of The Hill newspaper calls Senate Majority Leader Reid\'s omnibus package as \"only way to get these appropriations bills passed.\"
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has told DoD he wants it to be ready for a partial audit by 2014. The Senate this week is considering taking that goal and making it law.
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President Obama said he intends to nominate key posts in the departments of State and Energy, according to a White House release.
November 30, 2011 -
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A new report from the Partnership for Public Service and IBM\'s Public Sector Business Analytics and Optimization Practice points to the importance of analytics in measuring agency performance. But the report emphasizes that data collection is only the first step in turning facts and figures into usable information.
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Host John Gilroy is joined by CNSI Senior Vice President Shaliesh Patel. They will discuss the challenges in helping citizens get more involved in their own healthcare. November 29, 2011(Encore presentation December 20, 2011)
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Host Roger Waldron will discuss the GSA schedules program and other issues with Bill Gormley, chairman of the Coalition for Government Procurement. November 29, 2011(Encore presentation January 24, 2012)
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Future investments in science and technology projects may be at stake if Congress doesn\'t reduce the federal deficit, Maryland lawmakers said at a townhall at NASA\'s Goddard Space Center. Nonetheless, the center emerged a winner in 2012 budget negotiations, with full funding for its James Webb Space Telescope.
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Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew has approved the cloud security memo and guidance, known as FedRAMP, pushing it to the brink of public release, Federal News Radio has learned. Multiple sources confirmed Lew approved the documents before Thanksgiving and OMB could issue the memo and guidance as early as next week.
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Furloughs, layoffs, more buyouts and shrinking pay and benefits. Those have all heightened the awareness of \"Sequestration Anxiety,\" Tom Shoop, the editor-in-chief of Government Executive magazine, said in an interview on In Depth with Francis Rose.
November 29, 2011
