The Obama administration announced last week it would take steps to improve training and hiring for the federal civilian workforce’s top executives, according to a report in Federal Times. In a memo
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As negotiations over a stopgap spending measure have been put on hold because of a Senate recess, the federal government readies itself for a possible early March deep freeze, otherwise known as
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The General Service’s Administrations point-person for all things cloud computing said, like almost every new technology, the economics “are driving the transformation.†Speaking at the Cloud/Gov 2011 conference, Sanjeev “Sonny†Bhagowalia, deputy
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The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy will launch a new collaborative website to help agencies looking to bolster their acquisition workforces. The website and a host
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The Office of Management and Budget wants to expand TechStat accountability sessions — face-to-face reviews of IT projects where OMB leaders and agency heads sit down together at the table to discuss
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In a blog posting on the Office of Management and Budget website, OMB Director Jack Lew hailed the recent announcement that the government was “turning the tide†on contract spending. “This administration
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According to an unreleased draft memo, federal agencies have a little less than two months to “fully implement†secure ID cards, Federal News Radio reports. Federal News Radio, which obtained a version
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For the first time in 13 years, the amount of money the federal government spends on contracts declined, Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Jeffrey Zients said in a phone press
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