Management
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Six major agencies now are operating without a permanent inspector general. President Obama nominated Mary Kendall last week to be the IG at the Interior Department after nearly six years without a permanent investigator on the job. Brian Miller, managing director at Navigant and former inspector general of the General Services Administration, tells In Depth with Francis Rose why there\'s a lot at risk when an agency doesn\'t have a permanent inspector general.
June 10, 2015 -
One of the top leaders at your organization has a new title: integrator in chief. Federal News Radio\'s Emily Kopp tells In Depth with Francis Rose how that nickname came about.
June 10, 2015 -
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told an audience at the GreenGov Symposium Wednesday his service would reach the goal of producing 1 gigawatt of renewable energy five years ahead of schedule.
June 10, 2015 -
Sen. James Lankford, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management, sent a letter to OPM Director Kathleen Archuleta asking for more details on what OPM knew, when it knew it and what it plans to do about the cyber attack. At the same time, Sens. Mark Warner and Angus King asked Appropriations Committee members to meet the agency\'s $32 million funding request for cybersecurity tools and staff.
June 10, 2015 -
Commentary: Can federal agencies have a second chance? Federal Drive host Tom Temin says serious failures are often rewarded with big budget increases, but reputation is harder to recover.
June 10, 2015 -
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, reacted to a Federal News Radio story about the financial status of the Postal Service.
June 10, 2015 -
Shay Assad, the director of Defense pricing, said the Defense Contract Management Agency will open an additional five centers of excellence over the next few months to help military services and agencies make better decisions when buying commercial items. Assad said DoD also needs to move to value-based pricing.
June 10, 2015 -
Brian Miller, managing director in the Disputes and Investigations Practice at Navigant will give us his thoughts on GSA\'s transactional data reporting rule. June 9, 2015
June 09, 2015 -
The Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton say chief operating officers should be \"integrators-in-chief,\" making sure HR, IT and other support services help drive agency performance. Too often, it doesn\'t work that way.
June 09, 2015 -
Agencies make more mistakes with improper payements in fiscal 2014 than the year before. They misspend $10 billion more this year. Wendy Morton-Huddleston, principal at Grant Thornton, is looking at inspector general reports from 24 agencies. She tells Federal News Radio\'s Emily Kopp where agencies are going wrong.
June 09, 2015 -
On this edition of \"Ask the CHCO\", host Lauren Larson interviews Mary Pletcher, the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Capital and Diversity at the Department of Interior about the scope of human capital at the agency.
June 09, 2015 -
A new memo from federal chief information officer Tony Scott gives agencies 19 months to move all Internet-facing sites and Web services to the HTTPS standard.
June 09, 2015 -
Joanne Woytek, program manager of the NASA SEWP program, joins host Mark Amtower to talk about SEWP V. June 8, 2015
June 08, 2015 -
Anne Rung, the administrator in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, will issue a new policy in the coming months telling the largest 25 agencies to set up an innovative procurement organization similar to the HHS Buyers Club in the next year or two.
June 08, 2015 -
Less than half of the paperwork the Small Business Administration finishes when an employee or contractor leaves the agency is complete and filled out correctly. SBA\'s inspector general said the agency isn\'t following its own separation procedures when an employee leaves. Seventy-three network accounts are still active for employees who are already gone. SBA is supposed to deactivate those accounts within 24 hours after an employee leaves. Troy Meyer, assistant inspector general for audit at the Small Business Administration\'s Office of Inspector General, tells In Depth with Francis Rose where his office started with this report.
June 08, 2015