presidential transition
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Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work tasked the Defense Business Board to help its senior executives move DoD to the next administration.
June 10, 2016 -
Hillary or Donald, my impression is that the real person in both cases lies hidden deep in a "heavily forested interior."
June 08, 2016 -
Transitions between presidencies are complex, and one of the major concerns for the team in charge of making sure nothing goes wrong in one critical area – national security.
June 01, 2016 -
Public policy creation and implementation will be the chief tasks of next year's new administration. Bob Tobias, professor in the Key Leadeship program at American University, joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss some ways on how to make it happen effectively,
May 19, 2016 -
President Barack Obama issued an executive order May 6 establishing the White House Transition Coordinating Council to begin facilitating the process of passing the torch to the new administration.
May 06, 2016 -
Richard Spires, former Homeland Security Department chief information officer and CEO of Learning Tree International, and Alan Balutis, former Commerce Department CIO and senior director and distinguished fellow at Cisco Systems, discuss what challenges are ahead in the upcoming presidential transition on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
May 04, 2016 -
In less than a year, a new president will take the oath of office. Tim McManus, vice president for education and outreach at the Partnership for Public Service, talks to Federal Drive with Tom Temin about the Presidential Transitions Improvement Act, which is designed to make transitions go more smoothly.
March 30, 2016 -
Without a doubt, the 2016 presidential transition is the top priority for the Office of Government Ethics this year. OGE Director Walter Shaub said his agency has more training courses and guides, as well as an electronic financial disclosure filing system, to help ethics officers prepare.
March 10, 2016 -
Agency preparations for the 2016 presidential transition are well underway. The Office of Government Ethics is adding more training programs to help its employees vet and process financial disclosure forms for new political appointees. And Congress just passed comprehensive transition legislation.
March 08, 2016 -
When President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2017, his administration will bring new leadership to every federal agency — a fraction of the nearly 4,000 political hires he'll make in the Oval Office. So who's coming? Who's going? Federal News Radio has compiled an at-a-glance "cheat sheet" of key executive hires as they happen.
February 17, 2016 -
With one year left until Inauguration Day, the Partnership for Public Service's new Center for Presidential Transition is encouraging candidates and federal employees to begin preparing now for the next administration. Career feds should be prepared to tell incoming new leaders what their agencies do and how they can help.
January 20, 2016 -
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told the Federal Drive with Tom Temin that averting a government shutdown on Dec. 11 weighs heavily on minds as the House mulls its options for a new speaker.
October 23, 2015 -
The Obama administration ends in just 15 months. That means it's time to start planning for a presidential transition. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, tells the Federal Drive with Tom Temin what the thinking is behind a bill to involve career managers more deeply in the transition process.
October 23, 2015 The Obama Administration still has more than a year to go, but it's never too early to start planning for a presidential transition. The broad topic of transfer of power is covered by the Constitution; but it doesn't cover all of the requirements of a modern, three trillion-dollar government. John Palguta is the vice president for policy at the Partnership for Public Service. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to explain how new administrations can deal with thousands of management details.
July 15, 2015-
Carol Bonosaro, president of the Senior Executives Association, discusses what the next few weeks, and the next four years, will be like for political appointees and federal workers. January 23, 2013
January 23, 2013