Category: Saving the Taxpayer Money
March 18, 2009
2009 Excellence.Gov Awards finalists announced
ACT-IAC has just announced the finalists for this year’s Excellence.Gov Awards, the theme of which is “Transparency: Using IT to improve the interaction between Government and its Stakeholders.” A list of the finalists is below, in alphabetical order. The top 5 finalists…
March 3, 2009
UK government strongly advocates open source
This is truly fantastic. The UK government has decided that, where there is little price difference between open source and commercial products, open source should be selected due to its inherent flexibility. The initiative is also promoting re-use of product…
March 2, 2009
Learn about Recovery.gov at NGMA lunch, April 1st
I just got word that the NGMA is hosting a training session called “The Stimulus Bill & Grants Management: Tracking and Reporting Requirements” on April 1st. Earl Warrington, Program Manager for Recovery.gov and Director of the Integrated Acquisition Environment at GSA, will…
February 17, 2009
More TCG friends win a Fed 100!
One of TCG’s friends won a Fed 100 in 2008, and now another has done the same thing…and they are both working on the same project! Andy Schoenbach of OMB was honored last year and now Shahid Shah of Netspective Communications,…
January 26, 2009
Transition team’s technology group
This is a nice insight into how the Obama Administration is thinking about how to use technology to reform government. Well worth a look.…
January 23, 2009
Transparency is the watchword, and already a practice
President Obama is already speaking to a large choir with this particular hymn:
In one of a handful of memorandums released during his first full day as president, Obama said he planned to issue an open government directive, which will instruct agencies…
January 16, 2009
2009 All Hands Meeting
So we’re gonna save the US taxpayer $100 million in 2009. And $1 billion by 2016. No sweat.
Well, that’s the plan, at least, as announced by Dan Turner at TCG’s annual All Hands Meeting yesterday! And to make sure…
Nominated OMB Director says USAspendin needs improvement
USASpending is clearly at the forefront of the mind of Peter Orszag, the nominee to lead OMB under the new administration:
Dipping into the weeds of acquisition reform, he said the government should develop a more unified definition of inherently governmental…
December 10, 2008
2009 Excellence.Gov Awards nomination period now open!
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2009 Excellence.Gov Awards, sponsored by ACT-IAC’s Collaboration & Transformation Shared Interest Group. This awards program is one of the most prestigious in the industry, with recognition being given to agencies with successful IT programs…
November 13, 2008
GMLOB on Presidential transition radar
I just saw this page from the GAO’s Presidential transition site, which includes the following:
In 2005, GAO recommended that the Director of the Office of Management and Budget ensure that efforts to develop common grant-reporting systems, such as through this…