Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Jeffrey Zients touted new IT budgeting strategies at the Department of Veterans Affairs at a roundtable on federal IT earlier this month. Now, Zients, who
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President Barack Obama announced a two-year federal pay freeze yesterday, amid ongoing concern over the $1.4 trillion deficit. Obama said the proposal – which applies to all federal workers, including civilians in
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Coming hot on the heels of the administration’s announcement of a new approach to federal IT procurement, officials also announced a new “cloud-first” strategy, which some observers see as the administration’s most
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Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients unveiled the latest in a series of initiatives to reform federal IT projects: a plan to restructure the $80 billion IT procurement process. The most recent plan,
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After months of Senate stall tactics, Jacob “Jack” Lew was confirmed Thursday night by a voice vote to be the next director of the Office of Management and Budget. Lew, who previously
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Who says the federal government can’t ever solve a problem? Not Director of Personnel Management John Berry or acting head of the Office of Management and Budget Jeffrey Zients. For the second
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Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Jeffrey Zients will offer tips on reforming federal IT projects to close the IT gap between the government and private industry when he
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With budget cutting on federal minds everywhere, the White House announced the finalists in the Securing Americans’ Value and Efficiency award, celebrating its second year. The contest, which garnered 18,000 submissions, seeks
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There were glimmers of what’s to come on the IT front from federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra at the Excellence in Government conference on Nov. 1, according to FederalNewsRadio. In the
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In the wake of revelations that the federal government had mistakenly or improperly paid almost $1 billion to deceased people over 10 years, Director Deputy of the Office of Management and Budget
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