Elizabeth McGrath is the Department of Defense assistant deputy chief management officer and the department’s performance improvement officer. Her responsibilities entail leading efforts to better synchronize, integrate and coordinate DoD business operations, as well as advise the secretary and deputy secretary of defense on issues relating to management and the improvement of business operations. Prior [...]

As senator, Tom Carper has been involved in numerous committees, ranging from Senate finance to homeland security. Currently, Carper serves as chairman of seven different committees: the Senate Nuclear Caucus; the Senate Recycling Caucus; the Senate Finance Committee; the Environment and Public Works Committee; the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; the Subcommittee on [...]

Byron Adams is the legal counsel for the Department of the Navy’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. His responsibilities include reviewing and providing legal approval for documents relating to IT acquisitions. Adams has also been involved with developing a proposal to consolidate IT resources in Guam for the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine [...]

President Obama has ordered the Office of Management and Budget, the Treasury Department and other federal agencies to begin preventing contractors who are delinquent on their taxes from receiving new government contracts. As part of the plan, the President will order the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to make sure that contractors are accurately reporting their [...]

An Audit performed by the Department of Transportation (DOT)’s Inspector General Calvin L. Scovell III, has uncovered serious lag times in the Department’s suspension and debarment procedures, which resulted in millions in stimulus money going to firms that could have been debarred from contracting. The report, which focused on Operating Administrations (OA)’s (specifically the Federal [...]

The U.S. Military is seeing growing popularity with new Web 2.0 tool “milBook.” This new secure, behind-the-firewall, professional networking site for the military has already attracted 20,000 users. “MilBook” has quickly become a widely accepted tool by the Department of Defense. It was launched back in October 2009. One of the main reasons Department of [...]

Bev Godwin is the General Services Administration’s director of new media and citizen engagement. Before landing at GSA in 2001, Godwin was director of online resources and interagency development for new media at the White House. Prior to that, she was deputy director at the National Partnership for Reinventing Government (1993 to 2000) where she [...]

Since 1987, Andy Schoenbach has served as chief of the Budget Systems Branch at the Office of Management and Budget. He is responsible for OMB’s MAX central budget systems that support the formulation and publication of the president’s budget, as well as for data collection, tracking and decision-support activities. In addition, Schoenbach is the policy [...]

Appointed by President Barack Obama, Karen G. Mills is the 23rd administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Her responsibilities include helping small-business owners and entrepreneurs secure financing, technical assistance, training and federal contracts. Mills has been an active hands-on investor and successful manager of small businesses since 1983. She has also been an advocate [...]

Paul Christy serves as chief technology officer for the U.S. Small Business Administration, a position in which he manages the infrastructure and technology operations for SBA’s 200+ U.S. locations. Christy leads SBA’s initiatives in data-center consolidation and service-oriented architecture, as well as collaborative computing. Before his current position, Christy was deputy chief information officer at [...]