Management

  • A year after a scandal upended the leadership at Arlington National Cemetery, the Army is making swift progress toward creating a single database of all those interred at the site. Soldiers are using iPhones to record information and submit it to analysts to check the data against existing records.

    September 02, 2011
  • Stan Soloway is the former deputy undersecretary of defense.

    September 01, 2011
  • Reiff shared how she expects the government sector to change in the coming years.

    September 01, 2011
  • The agency plans to release two separate contracts, one for services and one for technology tools. The contracts would help agencies meet the goals of the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act.

    September 01, 2011
  • The Obama administration and the Defense Department said Wednesday they are making progress in reforming contracting in overseas contingency operations. An independent commission found the government has lost up to $60 billion to waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    September 01, 2011
  • Mary Mitchell, of The Mitchell Organization, a training and consulting practice, joined the Federal Drive to discuss ways to defuse workplace tension.

    September 01, 2011
  • Bob Henke, a member of the wartime contracting commission who previously served as DoD comptroller, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the commission\'s recommendations. Henke shared his perspective of what the government and DoD need to do to stem the tide of waste and fraud in contingency contracting.

    September 01, 2011
  • On today\'s Federal Drive: GSA seeks to dispel myths about its green contracting rules, OPM prepares to revamp its federal jobs website and new job-creating guidelines for agencies from the White House.

    September 01, 2011
  • Houston Taylor, the General Services Administration\'s assistant commissioner for acquisition management, said vendors will not be kicked off the schedule for not supplying environmentally friendly products and services. He also attempted to clear up confusion over other parts of the interim rule requiring agencies to make ensure 95 percent of their purchases meet green standards.

    September 01, 2011
  • The Missouri Democrat said the Pentagon needs to hire and improve training of contracting officers. She said the $31 billion in waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan should be a wake-up call for Congress to better fund the acquisition workforce.

    August 31, 2011
  • Two of the eight members of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan join In Depth to explain the recommendations in the commission\'s final report.

    August 31, 2011
  • The Federal Trade Commission is using enterprise architecture make its technology backbone faster, more efficient and able to run mobile devices.

    August 31, 2011
  • Erik Wasson, a staff writer for The Hill newspaper, joined the Federal Drive for a preview of the the congressional calendar as Congress prepares to return from recess and only a month remains left of the fiscal year.

    August 31, 2011
  • A new Office of Personnel Management report showed that agency use of recruitment, relocation and retention incentives rose 22 percent in 2009, the Obama administration\'s first year. That\'s a slower rate of growth than in previous years. But it indicates that the government still relies on one-time payments to lure or keep nurses, engineers and others with needed skills.

    August 30, 2011