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IT Applications vs. Standards -- yea everyone was duped by the Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) crowd -- where they blew billions on developing a useless Metadata Repository and all these useless XML documents that NOBODY will even look at.
This SOA nightmare is even making its way to the battlefield where they continue to pour billions down a black hole.
When will it stop?
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I'm a little unsure as to why you gave so amny yellow lights to the administration. I work up the scorecard results. I wouldn't give those kinds of results to an administration whose goals seem more inclusive of private contractors doing government jobs than actually allowing government employees to get the job done. Just look at this adminstrations results with the levies in New Orleans or the after math of Katrina.
Seriously, how can they get yellow lights at all, for anything? That means that there is progress. I just can't see where you're getting that from.
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Budget gets a green light? What budget. The government was running a revenue SURPLUS at the end of the last administration and has been in the revenue red - that's RED - ever since this administration came into office. Oh, I know, the apologists will blame it on 9-11 and the "World Wide War on Terror", but no matter how you cut it invading Iraq was discretionary and in any case when we've fought wars in the past, we've raised taxes to help pay for them . . . which is the fiscally responsible way to go.
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OMB with FirstGov.com gets a green light. You can't even track an agency like the FAA on that site, and what little you can see of the FAA is laughable. Reference: ____________________________________________
FAA Aviation Safety
The Aviation Safety program provides safety and regulatory oversight of the aviation industry by issuing regulations and safety directives, and by licensing aircraft. Rating
What This Rating Means PERFORMING Moderately Effective
In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
Aviation Safety program lacks efficiency measures and targets.
Appropriate financial and management oversight of the program is maintained. Program utilizes a systems approach to safety by using risk management to focus resources efficiently.
Aviation Safety program issues only those appropriate rules and regulations that are required to meet the goals of the program. ____________________________________________
Yet we find out through the GAO that the FAA's Office of Runway Safety has done nothing since 2002, and has lost 45% of it's staffing.
Makes people wonder about the veracity of this report, and the reporter that wrote it.
What a joke.
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The last entity that should have a green light is OMB. Top managers are the same style of political cronies that run DHS. Do they get a green light because they praise the entities the president likes and critique the ones he does not?
They critique the individual agencies, but the overall budget is in shambles. OMB plugs a few leaks on the Titanic and they get high marks. They open a website that provides an accounting review. The balance sheet is a pointless measure when it transfers the problem of paying bills to administrations in the future. OMB could arguably be the place where some one finally takes a stand against Congressional earmarks. (Like that would happen.) Our strategic opponents hold enough of our debt (i.e. China) to black mail the next president on any topic and OMB has a green light?
The professional career employees at OMB are as bad regarding overall budgeting as the silent generals were about Iraq. A future Bush or Clinton will blame the career OMB folks for their silence. All federal employees got suckered by terrorism into forgetting that they do not work for the president, they work for the people . RED LIGHT OMB!
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How many red lights do you need to see before you declare this entire administration a complete FAILURE ?
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President Bush's antipathy toward the federal workforce has been augmented over the years by his callous introduction of programs alleged to improve Government. The two biggest fallacies of all are outsourcing and NSPS.
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Competitive Sourcing doesn't save money: it wastes money. It is not run by the Bush administration to make things run smoother. Rather, the reason for its existence is to give huge payoffs to Dubya's cronies (Halliburton, big oil companies, political contributors, etc). It's as plain as that - don't make things more complicated than they need to be.
NSPS is nothing more than a pay-cut in disguise. Anyone who says otherwise is either a shameless liar or doesn't know the facts.
Dubya has done more to set the government back decades than any other president in history. Heckuva job Dubya!
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Compare the Government Executives' rating with those of the public voters. What a surprise that the Governement Execs see themselves better than do the people they are supposed to serve!!!
I used to be a Government Executive but retired two years ago and have been glad ever since that I did. What I saw were people who were more concerned about paddig their own portfolios than doing what was right for the people.
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This 'stop light' business is for third graders. As we can see from the marked difference from the people that are inside the government who can read between the lines and outside observers, this system is for people who know nothing and who wish to remain ignorant. Real executives actually READ what leads to the ratings rather than glance at a 'deck' and run to the next meeting having no idea what the traffic is really like. Just like in real life, the amber light, which is supposed to be a warning light, simply means 'GO FASTER before it turns red!'
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NSPS is a by-product of Rumsfeld that was designed to fail. There's no where near enough money to even pay for Iraq or Afghanistan let alone NSPS "pay for performance." We aren't even going to receive the normal COLA in January 2008. Furthermore, all NSPS employees were told that we're getting a rating of "3" regardless of our actual performance. The Air Force NSPS federal civilians are very upset and just waiting to retire. Good luck AF with no experienced civilians!
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But most importantly, competitive sourcing has failed simply because it doesn't produce any benefits for the taxpayer. It has been conclusively shown that federal contractors spend as much, or more, than federal workers to produce the same result.
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NSPS converted me from GM-15 Step 10 to GS-15 Step 10. and then, in turn, to YA-03 pay band. This was effectively a demotion, both from management to line and from senior to not-so-senior civilian. Now many GS-14 Step 1 and up staff classified as YA-03 believe that their positions and experience levels are equivalent to mine, by NSPS fiat. One reason I will be retiring soon is that I no longer get the respect that my 30+ years of experience, most of which were at the Gx-15 level, commanded before NSPS. I will be taking my NSPS payout in January, retiring, and then applying my skills and experience elsewhere where professionalism is valued.
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Reward s/be based on work performance/time in service; nothing else needs to matter; end duplication of efforts. Thanks.
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Competitive Sourcing. Demonstrably, historically and recurringly saves significant money, improves the quality and timliness of mission support services, establishes contracts for the performance for work that has been treated as an in-house monoply and sets the bar for such work through a full and open competition - on a level playing field. So what's the problem, a public relations failure on the Administration's part? I DON'T THINK SO. Hmm - Congress now wants agencies to convert work to in-house performance under a different and special set of rules. The shame for competitive sourcing's failure lies in the political appointees and the Congress, who have placed employee morale and support for earmarks over mission performance and taxpayer requirements.
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I hope that if I ever had to be graded on any aspect of my job, that you people were there to do it. WHAT A BUNCH OF SANTA CLAUSES. Bush has been a catastrophic failure on every level, especially with NSPS. he may have pushed through the system, but he has alienated the vast majority of the Federal Civilians that were thrust into that system. He took every civilian who was not protected by the union and now those civilians are not keeping pace with inflation. We are no longer federal servants, we are now federal slaves. Bush gets a green light in one thing....tearing down every ounce of protection civilians had as Governent Service employees. He should be absolutely ashamed of himself.
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