Management
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You can almost exhale. The new budget deal between Congress and the White House got the President's signature yesterday. But what about the Defense authorization bill for 2016? President Obama vetoed that one. But now Congress is working on a revised version. Federal News Radio's Scott Maucione has more on the updated bill’s chances.
November 03, 2015 -
A new report from the Government Accountability Office looked at four agencies to see how their money management and use of unobligated balances helped offset the impacts of the government shutdown and sequestration.
November 03, 2015 -
The resolution to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen won't pass a House vote, said Bill Cowden, an attorney with the Federal Practice Group and former senior trial attorney for the Justice Department.
November 03, 2015 -
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey asks, do partisan D.C. parents really keep kids in line by threatening to send them to summer camps run by the NRA or the ACLU?
November 03, 2015 Bill Eggers, director of Public Sector Research at Deloitte, joins host John Gilroy to discuss a new survey that looks at the challenges facing government as it undergoes a digital transformation. November 3, 2015
November 02, 2015-
The Office of Personnel Management's Veronica Villalobos says the 2 percent growth in Hispanic federal employees is a sign of slow and steady progress.
November 02, 2015 -
Mark Day, the General Services Administration’s deputy assistant commissioner in the Integrated Technology Services office in the Federal Acquisition Service, and Kathleen Turco, the chief financial officer for the Veterans Health Administration, are among a growing wave of longtime federal employees retiring.
November 02, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget sends agencies down the next mile of what seems like a cybersecurity marathon. OMB released two new policy memos giving agencies deadlines for hardening their computer networks and safeguarding their data. Federal News Radio’s executive editor Jason Miller discusses what agencies have to do over the next year to continue to make real improvements to securing federal computers.
November 02, 2015 -
Congress is figuring out which programs will feel the pain of a $5 billion cut to defense spending so the plan can fit the new budget deal. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said the cuts will affect important programs.
November 02, 2015 -
The IT Management Maturity Model is designed to help your agency assess where it stands in five critical functions of IT management. It's a three-phase project developed by more than 50 experts in IT, finance, human resources and acquisition. Darren Ash, deputy executive director for Corporate Management at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and co-chair of the ACT-IAC FITARA Implementation Project, updates In Depth with Francis Rose with the latest.
November 02, 2015 -
The Veterans Health Administration might have a problem when it comes to calculating mental health wait times. The Government Accountability Office found some discrepancies between when veterans requested an appointment with VHA and when those appointments actually happened. Debra Draper, GAO's director of health care issues, updated the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on the problems recently. She joins In Depth with Francis Rose to talk about her testimony.
November 02, 2015 -
Today is another signature day at the White House. President Barack Obama will likely sign the two-year budget deal OMB Director Shaun Donovan negotiated with leaders from the House and Senate. That doesn't mean though that agencies are out of the woods yet. David Hawkings, senior editor at CQ Roll Call, fills in the details for In Depth with Francis Rose.
November 02, 2015 -
Thirty children from 19 countries are sworn in as U.S. citizens, during a special Halloween-themed ceremony Friday at the USCIS Washington District Office.
November 02, 2015 -
The Office of Management and Budget released its annual guidance for Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) reporting and the cybersecurity strategy and implementation plan (CSIP) for civilian agencies. Both of these documents are part of the broader change happening across government to improve cybersecurity.
November 02, 2015 -
Agencies are slowly beginning to embrace that a culture change among top management is coming, as they begin to implement FITARA. Federal CIO Tony Scott said he's pleased overall with the plans agencies have submitted to the Office of Management and Budget so far.
October 30, 2015