Tag Archives: Jeff Zients

Jeff Zients has left the Office of Management and Budget after four years at the agency as deputy director for management and chief performance officer, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jason Miller writes that Zients has twice served as acting director during his time at the agency. His most recent …

Sen. Tom Coburn has asked Jeff Zients, deputy director of management at the Office of Budget and Management, to re-direct money from 10 jobs to other positions as a way to handle sequestration cuts. Federal News Radio reports Coburn believes that money should go to mission-critical jobs that could be …

The Office of Management and Budget is asking federal agencies to increase their use of strategic sourcing contracts as part of efforts to manage acquisitions, Fedscoop reports. David Stegon writes Acting Director Jeff Zients created an Interagency Strategic Sourcing Leadership Council to lead efforts to increase strategic sourcing across the …

The PortfolioStat program will save the government $2.5 billion in information technology costs for the next three years, White House Deputy Management Director Jeff Zients wrote in a blog post Wednesday. Zients said agencies can achieve this goal through merging duplicative systems, bulk buying and finishing or streamlining off-track projects. …

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants CEOs at 10 major government contractors to inform the committee if they sought external legal advice on whether they should send layoff notices to employees before the scheduled start date of sequestration. According to GovExec, Issa’s office sent a letter requesting that …

The Office of Management and Budget announced that agencies no longer need to do a three-year security reauthorization for information systems, Fierce Government IT reports. Jeff Zients, OMB’s acting director, told agencies in a memo they should instead just enforce more frequent reporting of ongoing authorizations of information systems through …

The Obama administration is scaling back federal consulting contracts ahead of schedule, reports Nick Taborek for the Washington Post. Last year, the administration made it a goal to lessen consulting contracts by 15 percent, in comparison to Fiscal Year 2010 where $43 billion was spent on federal consulting. Spending reduction for …

Jeff Zients, Office of Management and Budget‘s acting director, said last Friday during the quarterly President’s Management Advisory Board meeting that the administration’s strategic sourcing strategy may become mandatory, according to Federal News Radio. Ruben Gomez reports that the strategic sourcing initiative was implemented in order to convert the immense …

The defense budget for fiscal year 2013 could result in cuts to weapons and vehicles procurement as well as furloughs and layoffs for civilian employees, the Pentagon’s number two official told a House panel Wednesday. According to The Hill newspaper, Ashton Carter told the House Armed Services Committee the Pentagon …

The Office of Management and Budget has issued a memorandum to heads of federal departments and agencies on potential effects and procedures if sequestration occurs. Jeff Zients, acting OMB director, wrote in the Tuesday memo the office will engage department and agency personnel in discussions regarding fiscal issues within the …