Small Business Administration
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In today's Federal Newscast, skills gaps across the federal workforce played a role in nearly half of government's high-risk areas.
December 03, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Open Season is underway and the Office of Personnel Management says it has updated its tool for participants to compare plans.
November 12, 2019 -
OMB, the CIO Council and GAO are revamping the FITARA scorecard to include metrics around citizen services, customer satisfaction and mission delivery.
October 28, 2019 -
This column was originally published on Roger Waldron’s blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author. According to the Small Business Administration (SBA), “[t]he federal government prefers to contract…
October 25, 2019 -
Enactment of laws establishing veteran-owned businesses as a distinct class is done a lot to help veterans.
October 21, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Justice Department is looking to make it easier for agencies to submit their annual Freedom of Information Act reports required by law.
October 15, 2019 -
Chief data offiers face a long road ahead, not just getting their agencies to adopt the culture change of data-driven government, but also finding a workforce and the resources to carry out their new mission.
October 03, 2019 -
Nagesh Rao in SBA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer said the last few years have really seen a push to a cloud-based solutions as much as possible.
September 24, 2019 -
SBA has leveraged data analytics tools to build out a cybersecurity dashboard that provides an around-the-clock look at every agency device that’s connected to its network.
September 23, 2019 -
Kshemendra Paul joined the Veterans Affairs Department as its new chief data officer after spending the last almost three years at the Homeland Security Department. Meanwhile, SBA hires Bill Hunt from OMB and Labor promotes a new deputy CIO.
September 23, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a new report highlights how the most recent 35-day partial government shutdown hurt agencies.
September 18, 2019 -
Beau Houser will join Census Bureau to be its chief information security officer after spending the last two years as SBA in a similar role.
August 22, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Veterans Affairs Department's smoking ban at medical facilities now extends to its employees, something their union is not happy about.
August 22, 2019 -
Antonio Doss, Small Business Administration, discusses the ways the agency helps new businesses.
August 18, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has launched the Contractor Assistance Portal.
August 14, 2019