Government Matters

Gears of Government Awards recognizes federal workforce awardees

Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget and acting director of the Office of...

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...

Exclusive Sit-Down with OMB’s Margaret Weichert

The Office of Management and Budget’s Deputy Director of Management, Margaret Weichert, gives an update on OMB’s agency reorganization plan...

The Federal Beat – September 9, 2018

Eric Katz of Government Executive, Nicole Ogrysko of Federal News Radio and Troy Schneider of Federal Computer Week give their...

Office of Management & Budget rolls out “Cloud Smart” policy

Katell Thielemann, research vice president at Gartner, details how OMB’s “Cloud Smart” policy will assist agencies in moving to the...

OMB releases new customer experience guidance to agencies

Martha Dorris, founder of Dorris Consulting International, breaks down new customer experience guidance from the Office of Management and Budget.

Parallels between OMB Reform plan & Heritage report

Paul Winfree, director of the Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the recommendations from a...

White House proposes sweeping government reorganization

On this edition of the Federal Beat, Bloomberg Government Education Reporter Emily Wilkins, FCW Executive Editor Adam Mazmanian, Federal News...

BREAKING: OMB publishes major government reorganization proposal

The OMB plan includes major changes to several cabinet agencies. For a perspective from reporters and former officials, tune in...

Top priorities for incoming federal CIO

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has a new Chief Information Officer. Suzette Kent was announced as President Trump’s...

Report: CIO involvement in acquisition decisions

A new report published by the U.S. Government Accountability Office indicates that chief information officers need to be more involved...

OMB wraps pilot program to reduce contractors’ reporting burdens

Hudson Hollister, executive director of the Data Coalition, discusses the results from a pilot program at the Office of Management...

White House outlines R&D priorities in M-17-30

Dan Tangherlini, former administrator at the General Services Administration and president of SeamlessDocs Federal, discusses new research & development guidance...

Government Matters (Full Show) – August 22, 2017

OMB releases DATA Act Pilot Program report Dave Mader, civilian sector chief strategy officer at Deloitte and former controller at...

OMB satisfied with cybersecurity EO compliance

President Trump’s cybersecurity executive order called for agency heads to create a risk management report within 90 days — using the...

Parsing the role of managers amid OMB reorganization effort

Federal workplace expert Mika Cross discusses how agencies can meet the long-term requirements of the Office of Management and Budget’s...

Looking at government reorganization from a management perspective

Chris Mihm, managing director for strategic issues at the Government Accountability Office, discusses what agency leaders should keep in mind...

Government Matters (Full Show) – June 11, 2017

Exclusive: White House to announce phase one of management reform effort Linda Springer, senior advisor at the White House Office...

Exclusive: White House to announce phase one of management reform effort

Linda Springer, senior advisor at the White House Office of Management and Budget, sat down with Francis for an exclusive...

Mission delivery as the primary focus of IT teams

Karen Evans, national director of the U.S. Cyber Challenge and a member of President Trump’s Office of Management and Budget...

White House lays groundwork for federal government reorganization

Linda Springer, senior advisor at the White House Office of Management and Budget, discusses the memo issued by the White...

OMB memo calls for long-term workforce reductions

Charlie Clark, senior correspondent for the Government Executive Media Group, discussed OMB’s call for agency reform plans and the impact...

Reviewing the history of change management in government

The government-wide hiring freeze instituted by the Trump administration in January is over. Office of Management and Budget director Mick...

Trump administration follows budget blueprint with Office of American Innovation

Dave Mader, chief strategy officer for the civilian sector at Deloitte and former controller in the Office of Management and...

OMB: Federal agencies are doing a better job at securing their networks

Rear Adm. Jamie Barnett (USN, ret.), partner in the cybersecurity practice at Venable, discussed the results of this year’s FISMA...

White House, agencies navigate the passback process

Danny Werfel, director of the Boston Consulting Group’s public sector group and former federal controller, discussed agencies’ work on passback...

The future of civil service reform

Jeffrey Neal, senior vice president at ICF and former chief human capital officer at the Department of Homeland Security, discussed...

Balancing management and budget at OMB

Mallory Barg Bulman, vice president of research and evaluation at the Partnership for Public Service, discusses potential top priorities for...

Challenges facing the next director of the Office of Management and Budget

SeamlessDocs Federal president and former administrator of GSA, Dan Tangherlini discussed the challenges facing the next director of the Office of...

The future of budget negotiations between DoD and OMB

Roger Zakheim, counsel at Covington & Burling, explained why President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks hint at future budget battles among...

OMB Circular A-130 and digital government

Mark Forman, general manager of the public sector division at Unisys, discusses changes made by the Office of Management and...

OMB releases an update to Circular A-123

Grant Thornton principal Robert Shea, former associate administrator at the Office of Management and Budget, discussed the long-awaited makeover for...

Reporting management challenges at agencies

Robert Shea, former associate director at the Office of Management and Budget, explains why reporting requirements for managers at federal...

Timeline for OMB’s ID management initiative

Federal News Radio executive editor Jason Miller discussed his exclusive on the federal government’s latest effort to create an identity...