Robert Shea

It’s been a significant year already for the rise of federal chief data officers and the government’s push toward better data governance.

Robert Shea of Grant Thornton and Kurt Schneid of Brand Ready Media, joined host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center, discuss how to leverage podcasts to build your company’s brand.

The new law requires agencies to appoint a chief evaluation officer, whose job will involve asking key questions about the effectiveness of agency programs, and finding ways to measure their effectiveness.

Robert Shea and Robert Hahn, members of the U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking, offer six ideas for agencies to begin taking advantage of new evidence-based policymaking law.

The suddenness of the partial government shutdown forced agencies and contractors to scramble over the last week to figure out who is working and who isn’t.

The Defense Department gets a pass in the Trump administration’s government reorganization.

After a year and a half of study, the White House rolled out what it says would be the most ambitious restructuring in the federal government’s history. 

The overall plan for fiscal 2019 is coming in to focus, and we know a lot more thanks to the budget request released this month.

Communication and transparency during the government reorganization process is going well for some, and not for others.

The new report includes 22 recommendations, including the creation of a National Secure Data Service, and asking Congress to lift certain bans on data use and collection.