President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Xavier Becerra and Rochelle Walensky to serve in the respective roles of secretary of health and human services (HHS) and director of the Centers for Disease Control
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Jeff Zients has left the Office of Management and Budget after four years at the agency as deputy director for management and chief performance officer, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jason Miller
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Sen. Tom Coburn has asked Jeff Zients, deputy director of management at the Office of Budget and Management, to re-direct money from 10 jobs to other positions as a way to handle
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The Office of Management and Budget is asking federal agencies to increase their use of strategic sourcing contracts as part of efforts to manage acquisitions, Fedscoop reports. David Stegon writes Acting Director
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The PortfolioStat program will save the government $2.5 billion in information technology costs for the next three years, White House Deputy Management Director Jeff Zients wrote in a blog post Wednesday. Zients
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House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants CEOs at 10 major government contractors to inform the committee if they sought external legal advice on whether they should send layoff notices to
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The Office of Management and Budget announced that agencies no longer need to do a three-year security reauthorization for information systems, Fierce Government IT reports. Jeff Zients, OMB’s acting director, told agencies
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The Obama administration is scaling back federal consulting contracts ahead of schedule, reports Nick Taborek for the Washington Post. Last year, the administration made it a goal to lessen consulting contracts by
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Jeff Zients, Office of Management and Budget‘s acting director, said last Friday during the quarterly President’s Management Advisory Board meeting that the administration’s strategic sourcing strategy may become mandatory, according to Federal
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The defense budget for fiscal year 2013 could result in cuts to weapons and vehicles procurement as well as furloughs and layoffs for civilian employees, the Pentagon’s number two official told a
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