Although President Barack Obama has repeatedly denounced a government shutdown in recent weeks, officials in his administration say they are cognizant that funding for the government expires April 8 and contingency plans are being prepared.
The pressure to slow down federal contract spending will continue as the government tries to rebuild its acquisition workforce, says OMB's Dan Gordon. What are his three top priorities?
More executive changes: Heather Higginbottom to be named deputy director at OMB, and GSA's Teresa Nasif moves to head senior executive service initiatives.
When Federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled the White House IT management reform plan earlier this month, he said one of its toughest elements would be aligning the budget process with the technology cycle.
The administrator of the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs shared a special personal memory in his keynote speech at the Brookings Institution.
The federal government has found that there are nearly 1,000 more data-centers than previous estimates indicated after a rigorous peer-review process resulted in a more complete picture of agencies' data-center assets, according to the Office of Management and Budget.
Since 2001, the Office of Management has championed a number of ideas or programs intended to bring order to federal IT spending. But has it really made a difference?
The Sunlight Foundation's recent criticism of USASpending.gov has sparked a debate about whether it is fair to push for transparency in governmnet but then chide agencies if the newly transparent data is shown to have errors.
Editor Nick Wakeman explores the idea that these projects are just the beginning of a more systematic approach to ferreting out poorly performing IT projects.
