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GSA exec to be procurement nominee

David Safavian, GSA's chief of staff, will be nominated for administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, officials said.

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OMB's info tech leader to leave

Dan Chenok is heading to SRA

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Task force to issue program management recommendations

A multiagency task force calls for the creation of a Federal Program Management Office to champion the discipline.

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OMB keeps risk on the radar

Program managers now face increased pressure from the Bush administration to identify and reduce risks associated with large information technology purchases.

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Controlling expectations

In 2001, I met with 25 industry project managers to share lessons learned and techniques to set, monitor, manage and reset client expectations and increase the probability of successful project implementation.

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Giving Grants.gov a dot-com touch

HHS' Havekost leads grants portal initiative

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Managing from the get-go

US-VISIT team works even before launch

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NASA adds to list of IES users

Two NASA space centers will train security personnel on use-of-force training simulators.

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Agencies get down to business

OMB's decision to bounce back business case studies improves planning, officials say

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Funding bill restores sourcing teeth

The Treasury spending bill would have softened many competitive sourcing provisions, but that's been rolled into a larger bill that would bring some of them back.

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GSA names Fedsim director

Lisa Akers was promoted to director of GSA's Federal Systems Integration and Management Center.

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Clean audits deserve a bonus, officials say

The government should pay bonuses to finance personnel whose agencies comply with the 1996 financial management improvement law, two officials said.

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Officials to review DHS personnel options

The administration has 52 choices for the Homeland Security Department's human resources policies.

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Leavitt confirmed as EPA boss

The Senate approved his nomination in an 88 to 8 vote.

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Competitive sourcing measures go to conference

The Senate easily passed measures intended to restore some rights to federal workers under new competitive sourcing rules.

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DHS consultants draw scrutiny from Senate Democrats

In a letter to Tom Ridge, four Democratic senators demanded answers about what the outsourcing consultants are doing and how much they are paid.

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Commerce's Bodman to head E-Gov committee

Samuel Bodman will become chair of the e-gov committee on the President's Management Council.

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Study says DFAS competition works

The Center for Naval Analyses says the Defense Finance and Accounting Service continue using a commercial contractor for retired and annuitant pay services, despite criticisms from an inspector general.

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DISA reshuffles the deck

Reorganization seeks to boost DOD's net-centric operations

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Leading-edge business intelligence

As federal agencies deploy data warehouses and other business intelligence tools, they might want to also investigate two emerging trends that promise to shake up traditional business intelligence