Management

  • Steve Kelman is the former administrator at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, he shares how your agency can succeed when it fails

    May 18, 2011
  • A review of the Social Security Administrations\' budget may hold some solutions for your agency. Michael Astrue is the Commissioner of Social Security

    May 18, 2011
  • A new bill for saving energy and money for your agency. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) explains it.

    May 18, 2011
  • One year after the President called for improvements to how agencies hire workers, OPM Director Berry said KSAs, long job descriptions and the rule of three are mostly a thing of the past. On average, agencies are hiring new employees in 105 days and most job descriptions are five pages or fewer.

    May 18, 2011
  • A bill to boost training and testing for Federal Protective Service guards cleared the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

    May 18, 2011
  • The Hill\'s Kevin Bogardus reports House Republicans have threatened to introduce legislation to block an executive order that would have government contractors disclose their political contributions if President Obama goes ahead with it. He explains what\'s at stake.

    May 18, 2011
  • Jim Williams, former commissioner of GSA\'s Federal Acquisition Service, tells Federal News Radio what he\'s been learning working on biometric security in the private sector.

    May 18, 2011
  • Finding innovation, learning how it ticks, then spreading it across government are some of the goals of a new old-hand in government, \"serial innovator\" Chris Vein.\"

    May 18, 2011
  • Several defense contractors are hanging out a \"Help Wanted\" sign.

    May 18, 2011
  • Without action from Congress, the U.S. Postal Service will default on its obligations to future retirees\' health care accounts. Next up are payments to employees and vendors, the postmaster general told Congress Tuesday.

    May 18, 2011
  • Host Roger Waldron is joined by Paul Galanti, Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Veterans Services, and John Cissel with the Coalition For Government Procurement. They will discuss the problems veterans encounter when they enter the civilian job market, and the services available to help veterans in their job search. May 17, 2011

    May 17, 2011
  • Agency CIO Roger Baker said a new initiative will try to pare down the number of software packages employees use by 95 percent. The Ruthless Shutdown Project, is getting underway to address the proliferation of applications that is costing VA hundreds of thousands of dollars.

    May 17, 2011
  • Agency to issue first RFQ under infrastructure-as-a-service governmentwide contract issued by GSA. FEMA and CIS are among the first agency components to move their public-facing sites to the cloud.

    May 17, 2011
  • At this year\'s Management of Change Conference, organizers tried something different. WFED\'s Amy Morris gets details from DeKalb County, Georgia\'s CIO, Darrell Black.

    May 17, 2011