Office of Management and Budget
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Federal employees are one-step closer to a 1.6 percent pay raise in 2017 as the $21.7 billion Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill passed out of subcommittee.
May 25, 2016 -
Federal CIO Tony Scott said new data from government contractors shows billions of dollars are going to maintain hardware and software that either is no longer supported by the manufacturer or will no longer be supported in the next three years.
May 25, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing May 25 on legacy IT systems where Federal CIO Tony Scott will have maybe the administration’s best chance to make its case for Congress to support the IT Modernization Fund.
May 23, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform committee marked up three bills aimed at agency rulemaking, project and program management, and federal construction procurement on May 17.
May 19, 2016 -
Members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent a letter to OMB Director Shaun Donovan asking for information on how the agency is going to adjust its pilot program so it meets DATA Act requirements ahead of the May 2017 implementation.
May 17, 2016 -
Kareem El-Alaily, managing director at Censeo Consulting, and Richard Beutel, principal at Cyrrus Analytics, make the case for adding new metrics to the FITARA scorecard.
May 17, 2016 -
The General Services Administration picked 109 vendors for the $11.5 billion unrestricted and small business Human Capital and Training Solutions (HCaTs) contracts.
May 17, 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 -
The Office of Management and Budget is close to finalizing Circular A-123, which will require an enterprise approach to risk management.
May 16, 2016 -
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released much-anticipated guidance on using social media during background checks.Bill Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center at ODNI, said the policy is a collaborative effort to "strike the right balance" between obtaining publicly available information but not stepping on civil liberties.
May 13, 2016 -
OPM is fanning out across the country with new training sessions for the federal HR workforce. But Jeff Neal, senior vice president at ICF International, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin changes in the federal hiring process will have to involve a lot more than H.R. staff.
May 12, 2016 -
Both agencies are using different portfolio management approaches to better oversee and control spending on commodity technology.
May 09, 2016 -
A new report by the federal chief technology officer highlights the power of big data while also emphasizing the need to consider its ethical implications.
May 09, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget is reminding agencies what is expected of them as the countdown begins for the DATA Act's full implementation in May 2017.
May 09, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget released a new memo May 4 formalizing existing initiatives and creating new efforts to help agencies move to shared services more easily.
May 04, 2016