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February 15, 2007
Federal Spending is up!
I see that the Web site intended to help guide development of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) system is live! Through the Federal Spending site, anyone can submit comments to the FFATA Task Force that’s working on the…
January 31, 2007
Budget proposal to detail benefits of IT consolidation
GovExec has an interesting tidbit:
The Bush administration’s fiscal 2008 budget proposal will detail the financial benefits of an effort to consolidate back-office information technology systems across government, an Office of Management and Budget official said Tuesday.
Presumably this will…
January 30, 2007
Agencies to publish budget justifications online
I hadn’t heard this little piece of news until it was reported on GovExec’s FedBlog.
Government-watchers will get a boost this year from an Office of Management and Budget directive that requires agencies to post the documentation behind their budget requests online.…
January 29, 2007
OMB management chief welcomes Democratic oversight
Clay Johnson of OMB, our speaker for the 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards, is in the new with a report at GovExec regarding his welcoming the new Democratic Congressional oversight:
Clay Johnson, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget,…
Annual CTO Forum — 2/7/07, Arlington, VA
I just saw this announcement and thought a few readers may be interested in the topic of data sharing and interoperability.…
January 26, 2007
Excellence.Gov luncheon registration now open!
ACT/IAC just issued this announcement. I’m looking forward to seeing you all at the awards!
2007 Excellence.Gov Awards Ceremony 2/20/07 — Keynote from Clay Johnson III of OMB — Registration now open!
The 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards finalists will be recognized for…
January 24, 2007
Misnomer of the week: E‑gov = shutting down old systems
Wyatt Kash at GCN has a message for OMB: by shutting down legacy e‑gov systems, “the administration can strengthen its case for cross-agency funding of these, and future, e‑government projects.”
Grants.gov is perhaps the best example of an e‑government initiative that…
January 19, 2007
MS Office Hidden Data Removal tool
Matt Eliot, a colleague here at TCG, suggested this tool in response to my complaints of people leaving comments and tracked changes in Word documents. Rich Renomeron also told me that it works in all Office programs, not just Word. Unfortunately…
January 16, 2007
Excellence.Gov Awards top 5 decided / speaker announcement soon!
This morning the 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards judges settled on the top 5 award winners. I can’t tell you who they are — for that you’ll need to attend the February 20 lunch at the Mandarin Oriental in Washington DC (registration details are…
US Senate ethics bill amendments push for net-based transparency
Several amendments to the Senate’s Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act (S. 1) are pushing for more proceedings, video, transcripts, reports, and other Congressional activities to be made available on the Web, so FCW reports. This is part of the Democrat’s…