Office of Management and Budget
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Transparency gives additional clout to make technology projects perform. Tool replaces OMB watch lists and makes information more interactive.
July 01, 2009 -
Agency chief information officers officers face a new level of scrutiny starting today. The Office of Management and Budget’s IT dashboard makes it clear who is responsible for bringing multi-million dollar IT projects in on…
June 30, 2009 -
The Senate Friday confirmed the nomination of Jeffrey Zients to be the OMB deputy director of management and the Obama administration’s chief performance officer. The Senate Homeland Security Committee had signed off on his nomination…
June 22, 2009 -
The White House today will launch the third and final part of the Obama transparency and openness initiative where the White House CTO’s office will invite the public to “collaborate on crafting constructive proposals to…
June 22, 2009 -
Our next meeting of the Federal News Radio Book Club is what we call a “get” — we will be talking about a book selected by Aneesh Chopra, the first ever federal chief technology officer,…
June 15, 2009 -
I mentioned that I was going to be on DC’s NewsChannel 8’s Federal News Tonight last night — talking dashboards, no less. (To be honest, I was a bit concerned the topic was a bit…
June 10, 2009 -
Federal CTO details four broad areas of focus to bring new approaches to improve government services and society. He says it\'s a matter of agencies learning how to innovate.
June 03, 2009 -
I arrived last night here in Norfolk, VA for the ACT/IAC’s Management of Change 2009 conference. They have a pretty good agenda lined up — including Clay Shirky, a New York University professor and author…
June 01, 2009 -
The post is long overdue — but I think it is still important… and I wanted to get it on the record for our ACT/IAC Management of Change panel Monday regarding the changing role of…
May 31, 2009 -
OMB drafting new guidance to let agencies use function to better understand citizen Web behavior. Draft policy includes opt-in option.
May 28, 2009 -
New site, Data.gov, to grow to about 240,000 datasets over the next month. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says the public should direct what information is made available.
May 22, 2009 -
The Office of Management and Budget wants to move the government’s IT infrastructure to the cloud. In a request for information issued yesterday, the General Services Administration asks industry for ideas on how they would…
May 20, 2009 -
White House outlines replacement for PART program to focus on \'meaningful measures and quantitative targets.\'
May 11, 2009 -
The new budget proposal from the Obama administration contains about $17 billion worth of reductions and cuts of programs the Office of Management and Budget says don’t work, or don’t work well. Former associate director…
May 08, 2009 -
CHEERS To Senators Tom Carper, Susan Collins, Joe Lieberman & George Voinovich for the Information Technology Investment Oversight and Waste Prevention Act of 2009 (pdf). This bill is a first, but important, step in the…
May 04, 2009