performance
-
They say that journalism is the first draft of history. Well, with the transparency and openness out there these days, my guess is that most journalism is actually the second draft of history… with Tweets…
July 21, 2009 -
The new CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Roger Baker, is wasting no time in putting troubled VA IT systems on notice. Baker announced today that it will “temporarily halt 45 information technology projects…
July 17, 2009 -
There are some remarkable parts of the ongoing controversy about the Recovery.gov contract award — and most of them aren’t what most people have been focusing on. It seems to me there is a much…
July 16, 2009 -
Most of this is a re-post of an earlier item — but we had to change the date because of a conflict. The new date for the July meeting of the Federal News Radio Book…
July 11, 2009 -
It has been all of about one day since the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board — yes, the RAT Board — and Smartronix, the company that was just awarded a $9.5 million deal to (re)build…
July 10, 2009 -
Giving credit where credit is due right up front — Aliya Sternstein over at NextGov posts a great photo of President Obama checking out the new federal IT dashboard, which was officially opened to the…
July 09, 2009 -
I’ve been working throughout the day to catch up on what I missed over the past week while I was away with some time off. (I often post while I’m away. It is somewhat surprising…
July 07, 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 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