Reorganization
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The General Services Administration’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is transforming to serve its customers based on how it’s implementing category management.
November 07, 2016 -
Gormley Group President Bill Gormley joins host Roger Waldron to discuss category management initiatives coming out of the Office of Management and Budget and the keys to reorganizing procurement operations across GSA. May 10, 2016
May 16, 2016 -
Adm. Mike Rogers plans to create four new directorates to better integrate the agency’s two core missions, foreign signals intelligence and information assurance.
February 09, 2016 -
Ann Dunkin, the EPA chief information officer, said her office hasn’t been updated since 1999 and was in a severe need of a new approach to meet internal and external customer needs.
December 18, 2015 -
To change its culture, the CIA is focusing on the training, recruitment and broad support of its employees. Kimberly Ofobike, the deputy chief of the CIA’s modernization team, said the new talent center of excellence will help lead this people-focused effort.
December 11, 2015 -
The new Directorate for Digital Innovation launched Oct. 1 with a goal of integrating mission and enterprise technology to spur the development of tools and techniques.
October 07, 2015 -
A picture of President Barack Obama's contributions after he leaves office is starting to get a little clearer. The New York Times reports Obama is asking business and tech executives for ideas on how to make government work better. Tom Shoop is editor in chief of Government Executive magazine. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose that Herbert Hoover's legacy might be a good indication of what Obama's post-presidential role will look like.
August 28, 2015 -
The CIA director said the agency is following the spy business into the digital realm, but it is not trying to step on other intelligence agencies' turf.
March 16, 2015 -
President Obama's fiscal 2016 budget proposes merging components of the Agriculture Department and FDA that handle food safety, as well as business and trade agencies.
February 03, 2015 -
Mark Orndorff, risk management executive & chief information officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency, joins Federal News Radio for a free online chat to discuss his agency's new risk management organization and DoD's evolving approach to cybersecurity.
January 27, 2015 -
The massive reorganization the Veterans Affairs Department has unveiled begins with a simple premise: everyone should work from the same starting point. VA said it has now created a single map made up of five regions that the Veterans Health Administration, the Veterans Benefits Administration, the National Cemetery Administration and several other offices will work from instead of the nine separate regional maps that existed previously.
January 26, 2015 -
The Energy secretary is shaking up the department to improve accountability. Project managers will assume more responsibility and face harsher consequences if they fail to meet major targets. Some contractors already have felt the difference, and it isn't pretty.
January 16, 2015 -
The Defense Information Systems Agency launches reorganization, including the new Joint Task Force-DoD Information Networks. The new cyber organization will reach initial operating capability on Jan. 15, taking over 14-to-19 tasks from U.S. Cyber Command.
January 13, 2015 -
The IRS is reorganizing its Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division.That's the office at the center of a controversy about whether it targeted conservative groups' applications. Under the new move, technical law specialists and support staff will shift to the IRS Office of Chief Counsel. Marcus Owens, the former head of the Exempt Organizations Division, now with the law firm Caplin and Drysdale, spoke to Federal Drive about how fundamental a change the move is.
March 27, 2014 -
The Democratic Party platform, released Tuesday, is short on specifics about the federal workforce, particularly relating to federal pay or the size of the federal workforce. However, the platform does cite President Barack Obama's efforts to pare back overly burdensome regulations and his proposed consolidation of federal agencies. "President Obama and the Democrats are committed to rethinking, reforming, and remaking our government so that it can meet the challenges of our time," the authors of the platform wrote.
September 04, 2012