Management

  • The union that represents IRS workers is ramping up a public campaign in hopes of convincing voters that the loss of 4,000 tax collectors and agents would be bad for government services that they depend on. Congressional appropriators have proposed cutting the division\'s budget by $450 million-to-$600 million.

    October 12, 2011
  • Even with budget cuts at agencies, at least one budget line will continue to grow - cybersecurity, according to a Meritalk/Cisco survey.

    October 12, 2011
  • The proposal by three members of Congress would reduce the amount contractor employees can earn from government work. Currently, the limit is about $694,000 and applies only to companies\' top five executives.

    October 12, 2011
  • In this week\'s \"Pentagon Solutions,\" host Francis Rose brings highlights from the House Armed Services Committee Panel on Defense Financial Management and Auditability Reform hearing, \"Is the Financial Management Workforce Positioned to Achieve DOD\'s Financial Improvement Goals?\"

    October 12, 2011
  • The archives is working with the CIO Council to figure out how to move records stored in the cloud more easily and ensure their authenticity. Mike Wash, NARA\'s CIO, said this is a problem looming for every agency as more and more of them move to the cloud computing. NARA is considering how to move its internal email to a managed service provider. October 12, 2011(Encore presentation November 24, 2011)

    October 12, 2011
  • The Food and Drug Administration has named Eric Perakslis as its new chief information officer and chief scientist for informatics.

    October 12, 2011
  • Councils of union representative and agency leaders are making employees happier and the government run more smoothly, federal personnel leaders told a Senate committee. But mid-level managers say they should be invited to the table because they\'re usually the ones to implement policies.

    October 12, 2011
  • The Office of the Special Counsel wants to see the law governing the political activity of federal employees updated. Carolyn Lerner, head of the OSC, told Federal News Radio the law is outdated and has led to unintended consequences. The act was created in 1939 when "typewriters were about the most advanced means of communication," Lerner said.

    October 12, 2011
  • Bill Woods, director of acquisition and sourcing management issues at GAO, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss a recent GAO report about the use of suspensions and debarments by federal agencies.

    October 12, 2011
  • Host Roger Waldron is joined by Ed O\'Hare, senior vice president, Technology Business Sector, at Koniag Development Corporation. October 11, 2011

    October 11, 2011
  • The Lebanon Medical Center in Pennsylvania is using a new dashboard to measure how it\'s implementing sustainability efforts. VA expects to save or avoid about $178,000 in the first year of the portal\'s use at the facility.

    October 11, 2011
  • David Maurer is the director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues at GAO.

    October 11, 2011
  • Tom Shoop is the editor-in-chief of Government Executive.

    October 11, 2011
  • Martha Dorris, deputy associate administrator at the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies at General Services Administration, shared some ideas from last month\'s GSA conference.

    October 11, 2011