The Army is moving forward with plans to reduce the size of its civilian workforce, according to a Friday statement from the Defense Department. About 8,700 reductions will take place by September 2013 with 37 states being affected. The Army said about 90 percent of the cuts will take place within Installation Management Command, Army [...]
A House-Senate conference on the year-end omnibus spending package is convening today, according The Hill newspaper. Democratic and Republican lawmakers are meeting to discuss and come to a compromise on a piece the funding bill, which primarily covers military construction and the Department of Veterans Affairs. It could turn into a $900 billion spending package [...]
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps announced this week in a statement that he is resigning from the agency. Copps plans to leave the agency by the end of the year after a decade of service to the FCC. According to The Hill newspaper, President Obama has nominated Jessica Rosenworcel a former Senate Commerce Committee aide, to [...]
The costs of the Department of Homeland Security consolidation project has increased by at least half a billion dollars due to delays caused by budget cuts, according to a Federal Times report. The delays have also caused the relocation of more than 10,000 federal employees by up to five years. The original plan consisted of [...]
The non-profit group Expert Labs recently released a new social media dashboard. Results from its Federal Social Media Index, which ranks 125 federal agencies based on public engagement on Twitter, showed a trend of agencies with less followers engaging with more with their followers than the more popular agencies. The dashboard measures Twitter success and, [...]
IBM’s public sector business analytics and optimization practice and the Partnership for Public Service recently released a report on the role of analytics in measuring agency performance. The report revealed that data collection is only the first step in turning facts and figures into usable information. “Without good measures, without good data to track progress, to foster collaboration, to [...]
The New York Times’ “You’re the Boss” blog recently reported on reaction regarding the Obama administration‘s “QuickPay” program for small businesses. The program reduces payment time for small-business invoices from 30 to 15 days. However, the issue at hand is whether or not the 15 days is within the time and point of which the [...]
Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, is submitting his resignation to the White House with plans to retire, according to the Washington Post. He told the Post that after 41 years of service to four federal agencies he plans to move to Florida with his wife and work part-time on a [...]
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden recently spoke to Federal News Radio about the agency’s budget and its top priorities for the coming years. The agency recently received a clean financial audit from the Office of Management and Budget. “Anytime you can demonstrate that, at least, you seem to know what you’re doing in the fiscal arena, [...]
A cell phone emergency service used to alert government and public safety calls failed during the east coast earthquake this past summer, a Homeland Security official said. Allen F. Woodhouse, acting director DHS National Communications System told NextGov it was text messaging traffic that overwhelmed the Wireless Priority Service. “All of the texting and short [...]