Office of Management and Budget
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The Office of Management and Budget submitted an additional $44 billion request for disaster relief spending in fiscal 2018. To help offset new spending, the Trump administration wants Congress to find new offsets at civilian agencies.
November 20, 2017 -
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is reviewing agency comments on a draft memo to promote and institutionalize category management.
November 13, 2017 -
The CIO Council’s first-ever governmentwide hiring fair had 30-plus agencies participate to fill cyber and IT positions.
November 09, 2017 -
The Government Accountability Office released its first mandated report on data quality and use under the DATA Act.
November 08, 2017 -
Twenty-two open government organizations are looking to help expand public access to information, and at the same time lessen the paperwork burden on agencies.
November 06, 2017 -
Roger Waldron is the president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, examines the impact of OMB Circular, Implementing Category Management for Common Goods and Services.
November 03, 2017 -
The MGT Act will give federal chief information officers a central fund of $3 billion from which they can draw to update obsolete IT systems.
November 01, 2017 -
Just this week,the Presidential Management Fellows Program opened up applications for 2018. Created in 1977 by then President Jimmy Carter, the PMF program is celebrating 40 years of helping young talent find its way into the federal workforce. Federal News Radio's Eric White spoke to Margot Conrad, director of Education and Outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, about the program on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
October 25, 2017 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Office of Management and Budget wants agencies to use the new approach for measuring cyber risk to see where they stand for 2018.
October 18, 2017 -
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz says the hope is to spin off a page that looks at disaster assistance funds.
October 10, 2017 -
Oracle called the government’s efforts to modernize technology "out of sync" and filled with "false narratives."
October 09, 2017 -
The age-old question is particularly relevant as agencies prepare to reorganize and cut personnel.
October 05, 2017 -
Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) said the MGT Act protects against funds realized from IT modernization being taken for other uses in the agency.
October 02, 2017 -
Evidence-based policymaking isn't necessarily to let others look over the shoulders of federal programs, but rather to help those programs succeed.
September 22, 2017 -
Both the Veterans Affairs and Interior Departments are moving federal employees out of Washington, D.C., and into consolidated regional offices.
September 20, 2017