Radio Interviews

  • For the past 20 years, The Council for Excellence in Government has released its Prune Book after every major election. It’s a play off The Plum Book which lists all of the positions to be…

    November 19, 2008
  • Capitol Hill was abuzz yesterday as two prominent senators learned whether they would be stripped of their committee assignments, and in one case a Senate seat. Connecticut Independent Senator Joe Lieberman’s fate was up in…

    November 19, 2008
  • Merit board links employee engagement and productivity (GovExec) FDA opens new China office Obama to usher in major shift in trade policy Hard sell: Detroit links bailout, national defense EPA Moves to Ease Air Rules…

    November 19, 2008
  • Christopher Fountain President & CEO SecureInfo November 18th, 2008

    November 18, 2008
  • Tracking everything the government owns – all those computers, furniture and weapons – is no easy feat. But the same technology that’s in that high-tech HSPD-12 ID card you use to get into government buildings…

    November 18, 2008
  • Administration Protects Bush Appointees by Converting Positions to Career Civil Service Jobs (WashingtonPost) Transition Watch: Obama will cut outsourcing (FCW) IRS names first chief technology officer (FCW) Obama administration looks to fill more than 300…

    November 18, 2008
  • Transition Terror How vulnerable are we to a terrorist attack during the transition to the new administration? Michael Scheuer, former chief of the CIA’s Osama Bin Laden unit and author of the book “Imperial Hubris,”…

    November 17, 2008
  • Thomas Day Senior Vice President, Intelligent Mail and Address Quality November 17th and 19th, 2008

    November 17, 2008
  • There’s been a lot of speculation on who will be named to President-elect Barack Obama’s cabinet. Just last week, we heard that Hillary Clinton is being floated as a possible Secretary of State. Ann Veneman…

    November 17, 2008
  • Reviving a Dispirited Workforce Obama Urged to Tackle Frustrations of Federal Employees (WashingtonPost) Obama Wrote Federal Staffers About His Goals (WashingtonPost) Declaration issued after meltdown summit European markets lower after G-20 summit Next up for…

    November 17, 2008
  • FAIL The Federal landscape is littered with projects that didn’t turn out the way they were intended. A panel of Federal project management experts talked about why they fail, and how to prevent it. The…

    November 14, 2008
  • President-elect Barack Obama has yet to name most of the people he would like to serve in his administration, including the person who would fill the role of National Security Advisor. Who is he likely…

    November 14, 2008
  • Welcome to Friday! Former Feds Mentioned as Possible Federal CTO (NextGov) Prospects list grows for job of intellectual property czar (NextGov) Former civil servant might head Obama USDA transition team (GovExec) More ex-Clinton officials tapped…

    November 14, 2008
  • Quietly Effective One agency that doesn’t get a lot of media coverage is very tightly woven into the transition process. The Office of Government Ethics deals with many aspects of the switch in administrations. The…

    November 13, 2008