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We told you about it back in February — it is official this afternoon: Teri Takai has been nominated to be the Defense Department CIO and Defense Department Assistant Secretary for Networks and Information Integration.…
March 29, 2010 -
The DorobekINSIDER told you earlier that Jim Williams, the commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, is retiring after more than 30-years of government service. GSA Administrator Martha Johnson has sent out a note to GSA…
March 09, 2010 -
Martha Johnson is finally the GSA Administrator — both technically telework style as a result of snowpoclypse, but then this week more formally at GSA headquarters auditorium. And Johnson spoke to GSAers for the first…
February 19, 2010 -
GSA — the long wait is over. The General Services Administration now has a new administrator. The DorobekINSIDER has confirmed that Martha Johnson was sworn in as GSA administrator on Sunday — by phone. The…
February 09, 2010 -
GSA — the long wait is over. The General Services Administration now has a new administrator. The DorobekINSIDER has confirmed that Martha Johnson was sworn in as GSA administrator on Sunday — by phone. The…
February 09, 2010 -
DC’s snowpocalypse has delayed the swearing in ceremony for GSA’s newly confirmed administrator Martha Johnson. The DorobekINSIDER told you last week that the swearing in ceremony was scheduled to be Tuesday at 2p ET at…
February 08, 2010 -
We’ve been following the saga forever, but the vote finally happened Thursday afternoon — we had it live as it happened on Federal News Radio 1500 AM’s Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris…
February 05, 2010 -
The much respected California CIO Teri Takai will be named the Defense Department CIO, insiders confirm. She told her staff yesterday. The Takai appointment was first reported by NextGov’s Bob Brewin, but the official announcement…
February 04, 2010 -
It was thought that Tuesday might be GSA V-Day — as in Vote Day where the Senate would move along Martha Johnson’s long delayed nomination to be the administrator of the General Services Administration. But…
February 03, 2010 -
Could Tuesday be V-Day for Martha Johnson, the Obama administration’s nominee to be GSA administrator — V-day meaning Senate vote day. We told you last week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) had put Johnson’s…
February 01, 2010 -
The DorobekInsider told you it was likely to happen — and in fact it has: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) tonight filed a cloture motion for Martha Johnson’s long pending nomination, Federal News Radio’s…
January 28, 2010 -
Today, of course, marks the anniversary of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States — and there are all sorts of assessments of his first year going on right…
January 20, 2010 -
We told you about it first right here last week — and it will be official today — the White House has accepted the resignation of GSA acting administrator Paul Prouty and has designated Stephen…
December 22, 2009 -
Shockingly enough, we are nearing the end of the year — and we are also nearing the end of the first decade of the 21st century. I actually forgot all of this until I was…
November 30, 2009 -
The Agriculture Department is moving forward with its controversial mega-management reorganization and today, USDA officials announced that the agency has received approval from the Office of Personnel Management to move forward with early retirement offers…
November 25, 2009