Management
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18F and the Office of Integrated Technology Services release a request for quote to Schedule 70 vendors to provide agile development services. The 5-year contract has a ceiling of $25 million.
June 18, 2015 -
Tyler Morris and April Chen, with Iron Mountain Government Services, join host John Gilroy to discuss a recent survey that looks at the records management challenges facing federal IT officials. June 17
June 17, 2015 -
The IRS would face even greater financial constraints and federal building construction would grind nearly to a halt under a $20.2 billion FY 2016 spending bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee.
June 17, 2015 -
Commentary: Federal Drive host Tom Temin says he sees no other choice than for OPM Director Katherine Archuleta to resign over the agency\'s massive data breaches.
June 17, 2015 -
Office of Personnel Management officials told House Oversight and Government Reform Committee lawmakers that they didn\'t encrypt employee Social Security numbers because its systems couldn\'t handle the new technologies. Lawmakers pointed to previous breaches of contractors as a highly-probable way hackers got into OPM\'s system this time around.
June 17, 2015 -
Every agency in government will roll out its own Buyer\'s Club program. It will be *based* on the one at the Department of Health and Human Services but it shouldn\'t be a copy of the HHS model, according to Anne Rung, the administrator of Federal Procurement Policy. Bryan Sivak, a former chief technology officer for HHS, was a driving force behind the Idea Lab and the Buyer\'s Club at the agency. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about the origins of the Idea Lab, and how the Buyer\'s Club came out of it.
June 16, 2015 -
The Obama administration admits the government doesn\'t need all of the 2.8 billion square feet of property it owns and leases worldwide. But it\'s struggled to identify the property it can safely shed. New tools out this summer could provide a breakthrough.
June 16, 2015 -
Legitimate whistleblower or a blowhard masking poor performance? It\'s a judgment call federal managers have to make every day. No one wants to inadvertently punish someone who legitimately finds something wrong, or let a crumb-bum get away with murder. John Palguta, vice president for policy at the Partnership for Public Service, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to offer some advice on navigating this thin line.
June 15, 2015 -
The curtain of secrecy is pulled back slightly on employee misconduct at the Justice Department. DOJ\'s Office of Inspector General is now posting summaries of its employee investigations on its website. Michael Horowitz is the inspector general at the Justice Department and chair of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose he hopes the new policy will make his office and others more transparent.
June 15, 2015 -
Commentary: Embarrassment agency suffered from undetected hacks multiplies with its botched response.
June 15, 2015 -
DATA Act compliance is under way -- or should be under way -- all across government. Now the collection of best practices and execution of the DATA Act is under way at least at the Treasury Department. Marla Freedman is the assistant inspector general for audit at the Treasury Department\'s Office of Inspector General. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose what her team looked at to see how Treasury\'s doing with the DATA Act.
June 15, 2015 -
OPM gives agencies a stock email to send out offering few new details of a second data breach impacting background investigations.
June 15, 2015 -
The federal government\'s official tally of the national debt is around $18 trillion. However some economists think the reality is darker. Boston University Professor Laurence Kotlikoff joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain what he thinks the national debt really is.
June 15, 2015 -
There\'s been a lot of movement in the federal IT and acquisition communities over the last few weeks.
June 15, 2015 -
It only took 15 years for the Office of Federal Procurement Policy to issue guidance for agencies on how best to use reverse auctions. And when OFPP finally did on June 2, it was disappointing to say the least.
June 15, 2015