Office of Management and Budget
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The Office of Management and Budget is doing its due diligence in preparing for a government shutdown.
December 09, 2016 -
The Unified Shared Services Management Office at GSA released a new 10-year vision for federal back-office shared services that relies on a subscription or as-a-service model to deal with the needs for upfront spending.
December 09, 2016 -
President Barack Obama signed a new letter to Congress alerting them of his plan to tell agencies to give every federal employee a 2.1 percent raise in 2017.
December 08, 2016 -
There are still struggles with parts of the DATA Act implementation, but Treasury and Office of Management and Budget officials say they are working with large agencies and federal auditors to problem solve ahead of the May 2017 deadline.
December 08, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released its third report card on agency progress in implementing the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) and found 12 improved their grades, 11 stayed the same and one dropped.
December 07, 2016 -
A presidentially commissioned task force on cybersecurity says the incoming Donald Trump administration needs to begin shoring up the federal government’s IT security posture by granting a promotion to the White House official who oversees cybersecurity.
December 06, 2016 -
The General Services Administration awarded a $149 million contract to IBM to modernize its HR systems, instead of using a federal shared services provider.
December 05, 2016 -
David Green, chief security officer for Veriato, details why it’s important for agencies to rate employee positions and apply the appropriate insider threat oversight based on those ratings.
December 02, 2016 -
Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement, discusses a new circular that raises a number of significant legal, policy and operational issues.
December 02, 2016 -
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental thinks it’s learned a thing or two about rapid acquisition over the year since its initial standup, and sees no good reason why the rest of the Defense Department can’t use the same techniques it’s put in place to award new contracts in 60 days or less.
December 02, 2016 -
OPM is expected to release a final rule in the next few months that would change how agencies use data to do workforce planning.
November 30, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget Controller David Mader says the chief financial officers community will handle the presidential transition just fine, thanks in part to the community's work on budget, shared services, risk management and data transparency.
November 30, 2016 -
The White House hosts agency leaders to develop concrete, actionable ideas on developing a more diverse, inclusive federal workforce.
November 28, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Homeland Security Department's inspector General points out many glaring problems with the agency's process in distributing Green Cards.
November 23, 2016 -
Agencies have gotten approval from the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management raise spending caps slightly on performance awards and bonuses for all non-Senior Executive Service employees in fiscal 2017. Agencies can now spend up to 1.5 percent of the aggregate salaries for those employees at the end of the fiscal year.
November 22, 2016