Latest News
- FY 2024-25 Agency Priority Goals released
- OMB: cross agency leadership meetings producing real results
- Most of 32,000 recommended security countermeasures ignored by federal facilities
- SCOTUS ready to hobble administrative powers
- OMB: improper payment rate declines
- Turkeys Liberty and Bell pardoned!
- SSA overpayments top $23B
- Losing a Giant of Gov’t Journalism: Remembering Charlie Clark
- CR signed. Enjoy the holidays!
- House Dems join Rs to pass stop gap spending bill; now to the Senate
From OMB
- The latest FISMA guidance
- FY 2024-25 Agency Priority Goals released
- OMB Circular A-4 (Regulatory Analysis) Updated
- OMB posts draft AI EO guidance
- FedRAMP critic? Here’s your chance to chime in
- New! OMB Buy America Guidance for grants
- OMB: SDB contracting goal 13% in FY2024, 15% in FY2025
- OMB Posts Annual Performance Goal Progress
- Shutdown FAQs and Contingency Plans
- OMB to Agencies: Take the Sludge Out of the Digital Experience
About the Budget
- WSJ: Deficit bigger than you think
- The Status of Appropriations
- The FY2024 President’s Budget: Analytical Perspectives
- The FY2024 President’s Budget
- The Mid-Session Review
- Updates to Circular A-11, Preparation, Submission, and Execution of the Budget
- CBO: Debt/Deficits to Balloon
- Rushing the Return to Office: Why Forcing Feds into In-Person Work Could Backfire
From GAO
- Agency cyber incident response lacking
- Most of 32,000 recommended security countermeasures ignored by federal facilities
- How to get Agile right
- People, property, and tech impedes Coast Guard’s law enforcement mission
- Tips on reducing the tax gap
- Fraud schemes perpetrated during the Pandemic
- Report on border metrics lacking
- Appointments process at VA still needs work
- Shocker! FAA modernization could do with better project management
- Small business contracting a matter of trust?
From Congress
- Oh, great. Now the House fired the Speaker.
- Schumer Two-Steps around Tuberville; Senate Confirms New Joint Chief
- Congress launches What Works Caucus
- Military Secretaries to Sen. Tuberville: You Want to Step Outside?
- House Conservatives Launch Petty Attempt to Cut Fed Salaries
- The Status of Appropriations
- Senate HSGAC Calendar
- House Oversight Committee Calendar
Appointments
- Schumer Two-Steps around Tuberville; Senate Confirms New Joint Chief
- Jack Lew Can’t Get Enough Difficult Government Posts
- The Partnership for Public Service’s Appointments Tracker
- The Executive Calendar
- The Plum Book: U.S. Government Policy and Supporting Positions
- President Biden Needs to Fill the Government’s Vacant Inspector-General Positions
Other
- OMB: cross agency leadership meetings producing real results
- RIP GovExec’s Charlie Clark
- What’s next in evidence-based policymaking?
- DOD: New Cyber Strategy Addresses Realities of Modern World
- National Security Apparatus Braces for Deepfakes
- Nerd Alert! SLFRF recipients can exclude awards from indirect cost rate calculation
- Explore the June 2023 Agency Priority Goal Updates
- Schedule F architects say the plan’s critics are ‘hyperbolic’
The Federal Budget
Procurement
- Feds need better scorecard to guide acquisition
- IRS: We won’t use Login.gov because it doesn’t work
- Why the Air Force Pulled the Plug on a HUGE Acquisition
- OASIS+ Deadline Slips into October
- SBA’s 8(a) program hits another roadblock
- Air Force: You Can Have Too Much Cowbell
- Cracks in the Wonderwall: OASIS+ Gets Its First Bid Protest
Developments in the Business of Government
- Is the Postal Service Actually Making Money?
- Cracks in the Wonderwall: OASIS+ Gets Its First Bid Protest
- DOL’s Ready to Work program doesn’t work
- FNN: Hiring Reform on Congress’ Docket
- Latest PMA Updates!
- Social Security Disability Determination Delays Persist
- SBA OIG Report 23-09: Fraud Landscape Report High-Level One-Pager
- ForsMarsh: For IRS Direct File, Let the Evidence Guide the Way
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security Releases Long-Awaited Cybersecurity Regulations
- DHS Finalizes CUI Reg