Office of Management and Budget
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Members of the Clinton-Kaine and Trump-Pence transition teams met with Obama administration officials on Aug. 25 to discuss a host of topics, including an overview of agency planning efforts, the General Services Administration-led transition team support, emergency preparedness, personnel onboarding processes and upcoming milestones.
August 26, 2016 -
The White House’s biannual report to Congress says the House version of the 2017 spending bills would be $792 million above the limit for the defense and non-defense categories.
August 25, 2016 -
The General Services Administration held a reverse auction to set up contracts for five agencies to buy more than 45,000 laptops, desktops as part of a centralized procurement.
August 22, 2016 -
The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget released guidance on raising the bonus award caps for senior executives, senior level and senior professional and scientific federal employees, and recommended tying bonuses more closely to performance, including the use of smaller bonuses for specific contributions throughout the year.
August 15, 2016 -
Experts say the Office of Management and Budget’s update to the circular will greatly reduce agency pushback against using smart identity cards and other identity authentication and verification technologies.
August 15, 2016 -
The Defense Department says it's seeing a noticeable cybersecurity culture change from its service commanders. Under DoD's Cybersecurity Implementation Discipline Plan, service leaders meet weekly with the department's CIO to discuss their performance on 10 basic cyber measures.
August 11, 2016 -
A new policy from the Office of Management and Budget sets agencies on a path toward sharing new, custom-developed source code across government. The goal is to cut back on the $6 billion agencies spend annually on new software.
August 09, 2016 -
Josh Plaskoff, PhD, the director of learning and technology service development for HighPoint Global, offers six steps to improving your agency’s customer experience.
August 08, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget updated Circular A-130 with the requirement for agencies to focus on risk management when deciding on how to protect networks and systems.
August 08, 2016 -
President Barack Obama signed the MEGABYTE Act into law, and GSA released two new shared services offerings to keep the “slow” summer months hopping.
August 08, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget issued a final memo banning most new contracts for mobile devices and services.
August 04, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office says the implementation of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act needs improvement, as the Treasury Department works to finalize a system to collect agency data and make sure it is in the same format.
August 03, 2016 -
A third memo from the administration since 2009 is pushing agencies to consolidate, optimize and move data centers to the cloud.
August 03, 2016 -
Kate Josephs spent the last two years as the executive director of the Performance Improvement Council where she focused on having program managers take advantage of data to make decisions. Josephs left government July 29 to return to a new role in the UK government.
August 01, 2016 -
The National Park Service has nearly $12 billion in maintenance backlog it needs to clear. Bob Wilbur, chief of the Park Facility Management Division, has a plan to tackle it.
August 01, 2016