Keynote Speaker Robert Lentz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber, Identity and Information Assurance & Chief Information Assurance Officer, U.S. Department of Defense has over 26 years of experience with the National Security Agency (NSA) in areas of financial management and technical program management. He has served as: Chief of the Space and NetworksRead… Read more »
And it moves foward… from Gov exec Budget office predicts hiring reforms would cost $40 million By Alex M. Parker August 27, 2009 The Congressional Budget Office estimates federal hiring reforms would cost about $40 million over the next five years — a bargain, according to supporters. “It sounds like we could easily get aRead… Read more »
As a member of my city’s High Performance Organization Champions, I searched today for a web site where HPO principles could be discussed among colleagues and couldn’t find any. I found several sites that promote HPO principles and offer services, but none that offered open discussion. Where better to start than GovLoop. If this isRead… Read more »
Kudos to OMB and Federal agencies for completing the ratings of 100% of their major IT investments, which by the way was no small undertaking . So we now have a complete and well presented view via the Federal IT Dashboard (http://it.usaspending.gov/) of how well our “major” Federal IT investments are adhering to cost, scheduleRead… Read more »
Posted Originally to Bright Side of Government By Kristin Bockius, State & Local Government Social Media Marketing Manager Federal budget watchdogs and other observers know that agencies historically have reported the performance results for their spending and programs at the end of each fiscal year as required by the Government Performance and Results Act. InRead… Read more »
One of the key issues, aside from and never forgetting a good Social Media Policy, is the allotment of resources to maintain and monitor your various forums. Many of the various forums allow you to port (import) or stream one thread platform into another. For example, I utilize FaceBook as my onestop center, and IRead… Read more »
I was invited to participate in the Potomac Forum’s “Best Practices Symposium” today in Washington, DC. You can watch the full presentation with accompanying slides or you can absorb the slides without the commentary. The 6 Competencies of a Gov 2.0 Leader View more documents from Andrew Krzmarzick. Below is an abbreviated version of theRead… Read more »
From The Acquisition Corner An interesting action plan for speeding up the procurement process for Recovery procurements was recently proposed by Dr. Allan Burman, who served as administrator of federal procurement policy in the Office of Management and Budget. His plan, which was conducted as an interview with CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government, outlined anRead… Read more »
Robert F. Lentz, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber, Identity and IA & Chief IA Officer, U.S. Department of Defense, will be speaking at the Cyber Security and Information Assurance Seminar on October 15th at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott. Robert F. Lentz has over 26 years of experience with the National Security Agency (NSA)Read… Read more »
From Nextgov.com OPM decides to keep application form on USAJobs By Alyssa Rosenberg 08/24/2009 The Office of Personnel Management will continue using a job application form it had considered removing from USAJobs, but the agency has asked for comment on whether the form imposes too great a burden on human resources offices. The Optional FormRead… Read more »