Office of Management and Budget
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The Office of Management and Budget told agencies to begin sending employees informal notices about their work status by the end of Friday. Formal notices detailing their "excepted" or "furloughed" status should come over the weekend and into Monday.
January 19, 2018 -
Though the Office of Management and Budget Friday morning said the president is "actively working to prevent a shutdown," OMB Director Mick Mulvaney said that if it happens, a government shutdown will look much different than the 16-day lapse in 2013 during the Obama administration.
January 19, 2018 -
Congress is trying to avert a shutdown, but some are concerned a continuing resolution could trigger sequestration.
January 19, 2018 -
A new and exclusive Federal News Radio online survey found almost 70 percent of the more than 1,900 respondents say a partial government shutdown is “very likely” or “somewhat likely” to happen on Jan. 20 at midnight.
January 18, 2018 -
GSA, OMB held a listening session for federal employees, contractors to begin to develop an implementation plan for an e-commerce portal.
January 16, 2018 -
Mike Hermus and Jeanne Etzel are leaving as the Homeland Security Department’s CTO and senior IT adviser, respectively.
January 16, 2018 -
Section 846 establishes a framework for the implementation and use of e-commerce portals across the government for the acquisition of certain commercial off-the-shelf items.
January 12, 2018 -
Bill Curtis, the executive director for the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ), said new standards will help agencies better understand the cost of IT modernization.
January 11, 2018 -
Does the repeal of net neutrality open the doors for more efficient high-speed connection? One FCC commissioner seems to think it will.
January 09, 2018 -
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) has asked the Office of Special Counsel to investigate the details of Leandra English's move from a political post at the Office of Personnel Management to a career role at CFPB towards the end of the Obama administration.
January 08, 2018 -
Federal News Radio obtained a draft of an executive order seeking to give CIOs new hiring authorities and IT governance.
January 08, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, OMB Director Mick Mulvaney is pushing for a clean funding bill before the current continuing resolution expires on Jan. 19.
January 04, 2018 -
While I’m on Christmas vacation I asked some faithful readers to do a guest column. Today’s by Anthony Corridore has some management/change advice for federal agencies.
December 27, 2017 -
From Blockchain to cloud computing, agencies began working together to develop a digital road map to keep up with the ever-changing world of IT and mitigate threats
December 27, 2017 -
GSA released five RFQs for phase 1 of the IT modernization Centers of Excellence initiative.
December 26, 2017