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Enterprise risk management guidance for federal agencies

Doug Webster, former chief financial officer at the Department of Education, discusses enterprise risk management in the federal government, and...

Top management challenges for Department of Veterans Affairs

Michael Missal, Inspector General of the Department of Veterans Affairs, details how his office makes recommendations to fix agency issues,...

General Services Administration’s top headlines from 2018

Jim Williams, former acting GSA administrator and partner at Schambach & Williams Consulting, discusses how the General Services Administration was...

Solving the improper payments problem at federal agencies

Linda Miller, director at Grant Thornton Public Sector, discusses ways to reduce improper payments in the federal government, and why...

Treasury’s Fiscal Service releases Antifraud Playbook

Adam Goldberg, executive architect at the Office of Financial Innovation & Transformation, and Tammie Johnson, management and program analyst at...

Agency success stories in reducing improper payments

Danny Werfel, former controller of the Office of Management and Budget and director at the Boston Consulting Group, details how...

How HUD approaches enterprise risk management

Larry Koskinen, chief risk officer at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, discusses using ERM strategies for shared services,...

Impact of agency culture on enterprise risk management

Christine Jones, associate deputy assistant secretary for finance at the Department of Health and Human Services, discusses how agencies plan...

Impact of chief risk officers on agency ERM efforts

Thomas Brandt, president of AFERM and chief risk officer at the Internal Revenue Service, and David Fisher, managing director of...

Communicating management challenges at the National Science Foundation

Mark Bell, assistant inspector general for audits at the National Science Foundation and Elizabeth Argeris Lewis, communications analyst at the...

IBM report: Building blocks to transforming veteran patchwork to network

John Kamensky, senior fellow at the IBM Center for the Business of Government, details a new report about how the...

Challenges agencies face when implementing shared services

John Marshall, founder & CEO of the Shared Services Leadership Coalition, discusses challenges in implementing shared services in the federal...

Behind the scenes of FEMA during hurricane season

David Grant, partner at Potomac Ridge Consulting and former acting deputy administrator of FEMA, discusses what this year’s busy hurricane...

One-on-one with OMB Deputy Director for Management & Acting OPM Director Margaret Weichert

In this two-part interview, Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and Acting Director...

TBM links financial management, IT communities at NASA

Sheena Burrell, IT business manager in the Office of the CIO at NASA discusses how Technology Business Management is helping...

CIGIE commemorates 40th anniversary of the Inspector General Act

Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency vice chair Allison Lerner and David Berry, co-chair of the CIGIE 40th...

Agencies kick off new fiscal year with appropriated money

Government Matters talks with former Department of Labor CFO Jim Taylor and Former Office of Personnel Management CFO Clarence Crawford...

House Republicans propose bill to give White House authority for fed reorg

Robert Shea, principal at Grant Thornton Public Sector, discusses congressional efforts to support, or possibly impede, the Trump administration’s reorganization...

Using Enterprise Risk Management in federal decision-making

In this special Government Matters segment, A panel of experts from the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management discuss the...

NSA Inspector General lays out priorities

National Security Agency Inspector General Robert Storch discusses the importance of transparency, whistleblowers and communication at the intelligence organization.

EPA Office of Inspector General releases Flint water report

Charles Brunton, program analyst at the EPA Office of the Inspector General, discusses the second IG report about the Flint...

The future of the government security clearance program

Beth McGrath, managing director of Deloitte Consulting and David Berteau, president & CEO of the Professional Services Council, discuss the...

Preparations underway ahead of 2020 Census

Phil Sparks and Mary Jo Hoeksema, co-directors of the Census Project, discuss the challenges the census faces before their 2020...

The future of federal oversight & government inspectors general

Dan Blair, senior counselor at the Bipartisan Policy Center, discusses the center’s report on the role of the inspector general...