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The Office of Management and Budget said it's taking stock of its accomplishments over the past eight years, as well as the items it has left on its cybersecurity to-do list, before the upcoming presidential transition. Implementing pieces of the new cyber workforce strategy is a top priority for the Obama administration during its last six months.
For its presidential transition planning work, the National Academy of Public Administration has convened a series of panels, which have with ideas and actions a new administration can take to make sure its policy goals actually happen. John Kamensky, senior fellow with the IBM Center for the Business of Government and chairman of the panel, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how strategic foresight can help.
A new president will occupy the White House in less than six months, but the National Academy of Public Administration says the outgoing commander-in-chief has plenty of job training to prepare for his successor.
President Barack Obama's nominee for deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget told a Senate Committee he's ready to be a "front line leader" for the presidential transition if he gets the job.
These episodes tug on that tension line between political appointees and career people.
Are federal workers going to need a morning after pill after the first Tuesday in November? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey found a long-time fed who says brace for the worst.
Two agency leaders with experience in transitions said the keys are communication, strategic focus and fostering investment and understanding agencywide.
Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work tasked the Defense Business Board to help its senior executives move DoD to the next administration.
Hillary or Donald, my impression is that the real person in both cases lies hidden deep in a "heavily forested interior."
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.