Management

  • Ashton Carter, the nominee to be the new deputy Defense secretary, said DoD will need to consider civilian employee furloughs, the abandonment of major weapons systems and a severe curtailing of military training if the sequestration envisioned by Congress as a budget-cutting forcing function takes effect.

    September 14, 2011
  • James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, and CIA Director David Petraeus say they will protect the intelligence workforce against an impending budget squeeze. They told lawmakers they will look for cuts in technology and contracting instead.

    September 14, 2011
  • Host Roger Waldron will talk about the procurement landscape with Al Burman, president of Jefferson Solutions and chairman of the Procurement Board Roundtable. September 13, 2011

    September 13, 2011
  • The CIO Council launched the Tech Fellows program to recruit under a two-year fellowship advanced degreed workers into the government. The program is part of the administration\'s 25-point IT reform plan.

    September 13, 2011
  • For a long time your agency has been limiting its horizons for saving money. Some good, old-fashioned money management philosophies could go a long way toward helping your agency cut costs.

    September 13, 2011
  • Tom Shoop, editor-in-chief of Government Executive, recaps the recent woes agencies have faced.

    September 13, 2011
  • A proposed rule by the Office of Government Ethics expands the mandates for political appointees about contact with lobbyists or lobbying organizations detailed in a January 2009 executive order. The suggested changes focus on two main areas, widely attended events and gifts worth less than $50.

    September 13, 2011
  • Bill Dowd, the director for physical planning at the National Capital Planning Commission, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the challenges in maintaining security without impacting the public\'s accessibility to federal landmarks.

    September 13, 2011
  • If you are looking for good news you\'ve come to the wrong place, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. It seems that while Congress and the White House say that creating jobs is the nation\'s top priority, the second largest federal agency hopes to shed a third of its workforce and 70,000 federal contractors were sent on unpaid furloughs this year.

    September 13, 2011
  • GAO found four of six governmentwide acquisition contracts ended up with \'excess revenue\' for the agency in each of the last four years. GSA\'s schedules programs earned an extra $62 million a year, while Interior and NASA earned an extra $4.7 million and $1.7 million annually, respectively.

    September 12, 2011
  • Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) says the cuts that will occur automatically if lawmakers can\'t agree on cuts to reduce the deficit by $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years will fall heavily on the Defense Department.

    September 12, 2011
  • Angela Styles, Partner at the law firm Crowell & Moring, and Al Burman, former OFPP Administrator, discuss the OFPP definitions published today in the Federal Register.

    September 12, 2011
  • If the Postal Service were a business, it would be facing the equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. USPS lost $20 billion in last five years, and it is on track to lose more than $6 billion this year. GAO evaluates the state of the Postal Service and what needs to be done in the short-term by Congress.

    September 12, 2011
  • Julius Knapp, chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the formation of the National Broadband Plan. Knapp\'s work on that initiative has earned him and his colleagues a finalist spot for a Service to America medal.

    September 12, 2011