General Services Administration
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When it comes to data analytics at federal agencies, other areas for improvement include access and ownership, and avoiding the habit of sticking to the status quo.
June 07, 2017 -
Mike McGill, a long-time former press officer for the General Services Administration, responds to Federal Drive’s Tom Temin’s column highlighting the need for federal press officers to have personal and frequent communications with members of the media.
June 06, 2017 -
The General Services Administration will encourage agencies to collectively share their ideas and explorations around blockchain, in a new initiative GSA will launch this summer. It's part of GSA's ongoing effort to collect business cases and best practices from agencies who already are exploring artificial intelligence and other technologies, and develop a framework that other departments can use on their own.
June 05, 2017 -
The General Services Administration and the Homeland Security Department gave vendors their first details about what the next five years of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program would look like.
May 30, 2017 -
House Appropriations Subcommittee members asked Tim Horne, the acting administrator of the General Services Administration, to better explain the agency’s 2018 budget request, particularly for the FBI headquarters and disposal of underutilized federal property.
May 24, 2017 -
Federal hiring managers have a new way to buy human capital services and meet small business goals. It's a new arrangement under the General Services Administration's multiple award schedules program called Human Capital Management and Administrative Support Services Schedule 738 X. For what these new special item numbers, or SINS, are all about Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke to Peter Han director of GSA's northeast supply and acquisition center, and Robert Woodside, deputy director.
May 24, 2017 -
Roger Waldron gives GSA plans for streamlining and reform of procurement processes a thumbs up on behalf of The Coalition for Government Procurement
May 19, 2017 -
Amy Northcutt, the National Science Foundation’s chief information officer, died on May 6 after a short illness. The General Services Administration starts to fill political roles.
May 15, 2017 -
Policy updates include changes to the Transactional Data Reporting Rule, the reopening of Schedule 75 for office supplies, and streamlining professional services solicitations.
May 12, 2017 -
For millions of Americans, access to information is shifting to online software agents like Microsoft Cortana and Amazon Alexa. Officials at the General Services Administration are concerned about whether these services can draw federal government information into what they serve up. Justin Herman is the lead for the emerging citizen technology program at GSA and he fills in Federal Drive with Tom Temin on all the details.
May 12, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration 's Inspector General says the agency missed one of its major goals for reducing improper payments.
May 08, 2017 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, two senior Republican lawmakers have called for reassurances from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that is not interfering with its employees’ communications with members of Congress.
May 05, 2017 -
Dave McClure, a former Government Accountability Office and General Services Administration executive and now chief strategist for Coalfire, said the company studied the six-year-old program and found costs, usage and time to get through the process are much better than the general perception.
May 03, 2017 -
Contractors, no less than federal employees, can relax now that Congress and the administration managed to keep the government open for business. Luckily some processes didn't hesitate. Such as a training session for contractors recently staged by the General Services Administration. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners, shares the details on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 02, 2017 -
Do you know that the U.S. government pays out about $140 billion a year to people who either don't deserve the money, or are dead but still collecting?
May 02, 2017