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Full Savings Potential Not Being Realized with PortfolioStat According to GAO
Launched in 2012 by OMB to reduced duplicative IT investments and take more advantage of shared services, the PortfolioStat process has not realized full savings potential according to a recent GAO...
View ArticleStill More Work Ahead to Improve IT Acquisition and Implementation
Expanded use of critical success factors in IT acquisition, such as active stakeholder engagement and support from agency executives, along with further implementation of government and industry best...
View ArticleFeds Continue to Lower Improper Payment Rates
In a blog post on December 20th, OMB announced that improper payment rates had declined for a fourth year in a row, dropping from 5.42% in FY2009 to 3.53% in FY2013. According to OMB, improper payment...
View ArticleDefense Business System Improvements Carry Contractor Opportunities
In recent years, increases in requested funding for defense information technology has been attributed to modernization efforts and improving transparency through expanding IT reporting. Unclassified...
View Article2013 Wastebook: Entertaining and Eye-Opening
Last month, Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) released his annual report on federal waste, documenting nearly $30 billion in wasteful government spending, up from $18 billion documented last year. The report,...
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Governors focusing on educational performance, corrections, and mental health
2014 finds the governors as committed as ever to their growth agendas launched over the previous two year. Continued budget surpluses open the door to state innovation and experimentation.Each year...
View ArticleFY 2016 Budget Guidance Calls out Information Technology
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released guidance on May 5, 2014 outlining requirements for federal agency budgets in fiscal 2016. The details included lower discretionary spending and a...
View ArticleGAO Recommends Further Implementation of Best Practices to Improve Federal IT
Earlier this month, David A. Powner, Director Information Technology Management Issues at GAO, testified before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs regarding critical...
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Raising the Stakes of Contractor Past Performance Information
Contractor past performance information is one tool federal agencies are being pressed to use more effectively to guard against acquisition risk and recent White House acquisition policy and a...
View ArticleHHS Inspector General Reports on Healthcare.gov Spending
In the wake of the troubled launch of the Federal Marketplace for health insurance, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for Health and Human Services (HHS) is reviewing the planning, acquisition,...
View ArticleCompliance Failings Hinder Defense Business System Efforts
The Department of Defense is working towards business system modernization and auditability targets, but some agencies are struggling with competing priorities. According to an inspector general report...
View ArticleAnalyzing Federal Program Overlap is Difficult at Best
Finding duplicative federal programs in order to combine, consolidate, or eliminate them is next to impossible with current reporting mechanisms according to a recent GAO report. The GPRA...
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Federal Spending on Enterprise Business Systems Stays Strong
Ongoing initiatives to modernize government business systems offer prime examples of the ways federal agencies are looking to leverage technology transformation to achieve cost savings and efficiency...
View ArticleGAO Updates High Risk Programs List
Yesterday, GAO released its biennial update of federal high risk programs, a total of 32 programs including two new areas, Veterans Health Care and IT Acquisitions and Operations.Since the list’s...
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Reducing Areas of Duplication and Overlap in Federal Programs Could Save...
Last week, GAO released its fifth annual report on duplication, fragmentation and overlap in federal government programs. The report is meant to identify areas of opportunity to gain efficiencies,...
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