Without a doubt, the 2016 presidential transition is the top priority for the Office of Government Ethics this year. OGE Director Walter Shaub said his agency has more training courses and guides, as well as an electronic financial disclosure filing system, to help ethics officers prepare.
Anne Rung, the administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and Tony Scott, the federal chief information officer, sent a memo to all CFO Act agencies detailing the requirements for the new labs as well as announcing a pilot to expand the use of digital acquisition capabilities across the government.
The Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office defended their increased budget requests to Congress, emphasizing the amount of returns on the investment each agency brings back to the government.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told the chairmen of two Senate financial committees it fixed an "isolated coding error" in its retirement planning calculator, but those senators said many questions remain unanswered.
The British government, which spends some $317 billion a year, was the first to use category management to control government spending. David Shields, procurement transformation executive who led the U.K. effort, recently joined ASI Government in Rosslyn, Virginia. He joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the history and promise of category management.
Nicholas Doucet, executive director for operations for Air and Marine Operations at Customs and Border Protection, tells Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin how AMO is looking to increase its effectiveness.
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson defended his agency's $40.6 billion fiscal 2017 budget, telling a congressional committee that cybersecurity funding would help hiring efforts.
Agency preparations for the 2016 presidential transition are well underway. The Office of Government Ethics is adding more training programs to help its employees vet and process financial disclosure forms for new political appointees. And Congress just passed comprehensive transition legislation.
Nearly half of the firms approved by the Internal Revenue Service to provide free online tax filing services have received a failing grade from a cybersecurity watchdog organization.
The 2017 Pentagon budget request looks a lot like the 2016 one, maybe a little more so. The well-known and costly platforms are all in there, from the F-35 to modernizing the nuclear arsenal. Law professor Charles Tiefer shares his thoughts on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about some of the big drivers of waste.
Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) chairs the subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science. For nearly a year, he's been pushing a bill to re-do NASA's management structure. He spoke with Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about it.
Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Mark Schwartz, the chief information officer of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, about the 75 systems he's charged with overseeing and modernizing.
The Office of Management and Budget’s new draft policy recognizes the data center consolidation and optimization initiative must fold in several ongoing priorities — from infrastructure and systems modernization, to cybersecurity, cloud first, and the greening of the government — to be more effective.
With several high profile CIO positions open, agencies need to consider what type of person they want to hire. A Brookings scholar is arguing against a high-profile outsider.
If the President's budget request for 2017 prevails, a 1.5 percent jump in the federal workforce would mean another 30,000 or 35,000 new people. Tim McManus, vice president of education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin agencies can keep their HR staff from overheating.