Better Explanation of Problems Sought
However, while OMB began publishing aggregate lists of watch list and high-risk list projects by agency last September and updates …More
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Sign up Now! Free eNewslettersOMB High-Risk and Management Watch Lists Lack Detail, GAO Says
GAO’s director for IT management issues, David Powner, told the subcommittee that further improvements are needed to identify and oversee …More
Senator Recommends Scrapping Problem IT Programs
The chairman of the Senate federal financial management subcommittee, Tom Carper, D-Del., has suggested scrapping large IT programs that are …More
Actions Underway
GAO called on the department take 17 actions to improve information protection, including recommendations to hire a CIO quickly and …More
GAO Calls for Information Management Improvements at VA
Sustained management commitment and oversight are needed to resolve long-standing information security weaknesses at the Department of Veterans Affairs, GAO …More
OPM Issues Final Rule for Hiring of Retirees
PM published a final rule in the September 19 Federal Register on the criteria under which it may grant dual …More
Puts Forward A-76 Fixes for Congress to Consider
Though CRS does not issue recommendations, it basically did so by putting forward options for improving the A-76 process for …More
Report: A Convergence of Factors Led to Failures at Walter Reed
The Walter Reed A-76 competition is a case much went wrong and Congress may want to act to prevent similar …More
CBO Says Information on Managerial Training is Lacking
As part of a cost estimate on a managerial training bill pending before the Senate, the Congressional Budget Office said …More
OFPP Releases Guidance on Hiring Annuitants
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has issued a memo to senior procurement executives on hiring retired federal employees receiving …More
Collins: DHS Needs to Bolster Acquisition Management
Committee ranking member Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she was troubled that GAO found the department still lacks clear, department-wide acquisition …More
DHS Mission Progress Outpacing Management Improvements, GAO Says
DHS has made more mission progress than management progress, comptroller general David Walker told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental …More
GSA Chief Wants Steep Increase in Telework
GSA administrator Lurita Doan has called on the agency to come up with plans to get half its eligible employees …More
DHS and Lawmakers at Odds Over Future of Federal Protective Service
DHS intends to change the role of the Federal Protective Service by reassigning its 950 officers to other law enforcement …More
Most Relocation Incentives Go To Senior Employees
Out of the 1,009 relocation incentives agencies used in 2006 for an average amount of $11,530, 80 percent went to …More
GAO: Improvements Needed in Homeland Security IT Personnel Plan
While DHS’s human capital plan for IT is largely consistent with relevant guidance, improvements and implementation steps are still needed, …More
GSA Announces Personnel Shuffle in Acquisition Service
GSA has announced plans to realign resources within the Assisted Acquisition Service, a part of the Federal Acquisition Service that …More
DoD to Pursue NSPS Changes
DoD has announced an expansion of its national security personnel system, along with a revision in the way pay raises …More
Congress Votes to Forgive Student Loan for Public Servants After 10 Years
The House and Senate have passed in conference legislation that would forgive balances due on direct student loans by borrowers …More
DoD Needs to Provides Better Information in R&D Budget Requests, GAO Says
DoD’s $73.2 billion fiscal 2007 budget requests for research and development, testing and evaluation do not provide consistent, complete and …More
Another Blow to Outsourcing Tax Collection
As it has in the past, an independent Taxpayer Advocacy Panel has called on the IRS to scrap its use …More
Role of Leadership Committees in Transformation Unsettled
Until DoD’s business transformation management framework is institutionalized and covers responsibilities for all aspects of business transformation, it will be …More
GAO Renews Call for Chief Management Officer at DoD
DoD needs a chief management officer to provide focus and sustained leadership in order to succeed with its ongoing and …More
Survey: Lack of Data Hampers HR Sourcing Efforts
Measuring the cost of HR services is in large part a guessing game, according to a survey of 25 federal …More
GAO Calls for Management Improvements to USVISIT
DHS needs to address a long-standing lack of strategic direction and management controls over the visitor and immigrant status program, …More
Union Agreement Clears Way for Federal Acquisition Service
GSA has announced an agreement with two unions that has cleared the way for full implementation of the Federal Acquisition …More
Arbitrator Cites Discrimination in SEC Pay System
An arbitrator has decided that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s pay-for-performance system has resulted in discrimination against some African American …More
Appeals Court OK
The Ninth Circuit U.S. appeals court has reversed a district court’s ruling that it lacked jurisdiction to hear a matter …More
Numbers Don
As compared with a similar report covering 2005, use of incentives was up substantially over the 5,998 incentives to employees …More
Use of Incentive Payments Concentrated
Federal agencies made substantially greater use of recruitment, relocation and incentive payments for hard-to-fill and hard-to-keep positions in 2006, OPM …More
