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Federal Contracting: Timely Actions Needed to Address Risks Posed by Consultants Working for China
This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found From fiscal years 2019 through 2023, federal agencies obligated over $500 billion on contracts associated with consulting services. The Departments of Defense (DOD) and Homeland Security (DHS) accounted for over half of this amount. Given these agencies’ missions, contracted consulting services can include work related to (more...)
Employees at Latin American aid agency vote to unionize
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. Workers at the Inter-American Foundation almost unanimously voted to join the American Federation of Government Employees last week amid claims of no in-house human resources and an undermanned staff. (more...)
Older Americans Act: Agencies Should Take Steps to Better Manage Fraud Risks
This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found The Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Administration for Community Living (ACL) and the Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA) administer multiple grant programs under the Older Americans Act. Although ACL and ETA identified various staff involved in financial management and program oversight, (more...)
Intelligence agencies are attracting new talent, but do they have the career development systems to keep them?
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. Between balancing recruiting fresh, digital-literate talent and upskilling an experienced workforce, agencies in the Intelligence Community also need to ensure they are updating their career development processes to retain both, says former DOD CIO John Sherman. (more...)
Trump’s second-term agenda: Breaking the bureaucracy
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. If elected this fall, Donald Trump’s return to Washington would promise a more aggressive—and plausible—campaign to hobble unions, politicize the nonpartisan civil service and remake the federal government in the Republican’s image. (more...)
Delivering Full Spectrum Acquisition Services: A Conversation with Corey Nickens, Client Executive for the Assisted Acquisition Services Innovation Business Unit Federal Acquisition Service, GSA
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Broadcast Date: Monday, September 16, 2024 Michael J. Keegan What is the mission of the U.S. General Services Administration’s Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS)? How does it work to meet the unique needs of the federal agencies it supports? How is it changing the way it does business? (more...)
Weekly Roundup: September 9-13, 2024
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Friday, September 13, 2024 Michael J. Keegan Articles & insights of interest in public management & leadership for the week ending September 13, 2024 O’Malley makes last ditch effort to secure Biden’s budget proposal for Social Security. The commissioner said that without a budget anomaly to boost (more...)
GSA’s coworking pilot could help better plan the future of work, but first, it needs to define long-term success
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. A new GAO report found that before the agency can further scale up the program to consolidate federal office spaces, it must find out how to measure its cost-savings gains. (more...)
13 things to know about long-term care planning
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. It’s never too early to plan. (more...)
Oak Ridge Mercury Cleanup: Opportunities Exist to Enhance Risk Management and Technology Development
This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) oversees the cleanup of mercury contamination at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee. OREM has identified mercury contamination there as the greatest environmental risk at Oak Ridge. The scope of mercury cleanup (more...)