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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Just a few days into his new/old job as the head of the Office of Management and Budget, Jacob “Jack” Lew said he was “happy to be back.” Writing on the OMB
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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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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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The federal government has long been accused of speaking its own language marked by its overly arcane, even inscrutable syntax. But a new group working within the Office of Management and Budget
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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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Cyber observers agree there is a shortage of cybersecurity professionals within the federal government, but two recent competing reports cannot agree on a solution for the problem. An overwhelming majority of cybersecurity
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A new hire at the Information Sharing Environment, tasked with increasing national security information sharing, is help to fill out the relatively new agency. Mike Howell will join the Information Sharing Environment
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