Office of Management and Budget
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Two employee unions, NTEU and NFFE, want their members to make their voices heard about what they say is the real impact of a government shutdown. The organizations are asking federal employees to call their member of Congress April 5. The unions also are trying to improve how they communicate with members about the shutdown.
April 04, 2011 -
Federal News Radio\'s Amy Morris answers questions about the effects of a government shutdown on feds.
April 01, 2011 -
Several sites, including Data.gov, the IT Dashboard and the FEDRamp cloud efforts, could be shut down in the next two months if the administration doesn\'t get more money under the E-government fund. In all, nine sites are on the list to be discontinued by July 30 if OMB doesn\'t find money to keep it going. Experts say OMB has several ways to keep the sites up, including pass-the-hat among agencies.
March 31, 2011 -
Federal News Radio asks readers to take a poll on their agency\'s shutdown preparations.
March 30, 2011 -
Federal employees have some of the best knowledge about how our government works, and some of the best ideas of how to improve it so it best serves the American people. That\'s why the White House wants your input through a new online tool.
March 30, 2011 -
The agency plans to follow the model credit card companies use to identify potential problems on the front end instead of trying to chase down the money after the fact. CMS accounts for about 46 percent of all improper payments across the government. Overall, OMB wants to reduce the governmentwide error rate to 4.18 percent by 2013.
March 24, 2011 -
Jeff Zients, OMB\'s deputy director for management and chief performance officer, said he sent an email to federal employees asking for ways to reform export and trade missions of agencies. He said there are 12 different agencies that have programs in these areas. A new platform has collected almost 1,200 ideas so far.
March 22, 2011 -
Agencies reported more than 41,000 cyber incidents in 2010.
March 21, 2011 -
Despite a 2006 mandate to secure mobile devices and implement two-factor authentication, only just over half of federal agencies have managed to do so. OMB submits its annual FISMA report to Congress detailing the steps the government has taken to improve cybersecurity, including spending $12 billion on cybersecurity last year.
March 21, 2011 -
The federal CIO told House lawmakers that one major reason IT projects fail is the lack of authority agency technology executives have over spending. Kundra said as part of the 25-point IT reform plan, OMB is restricting the roles of all major agency CIOs. He said the Interior Department is the model, and HHS is next.
March 18, 2011 -
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today approved the nomination of Heather Higginbottom to be deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget.
March 16, 2011 -
Elizabeth Ferrell and Jim Schweiter of McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP discuss the potential ramifications of a government shutdown for federal agencies and contractors. March 15, 2011 (Encore presentation April 5, 2011)
March 15, 2011 -
A House committee held a discussion on openness in government and addressed the errors made in reporting data related to spending.
March 14, 2011 -
New vice chairman of the CIO Council Richard Spires said he wants small and large agencies to learn from each other when it comes to implementing IT reforms. Small agencies have a different type of challenge than larger ones in implementing OMB\'s 25-point plan.
March 10, 2011 -
Ben Marglin, principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, explains changes coming to the way agencies make business cases for IT projects.
March 10, 2011