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Charles S. Clark
Senior Correspondent
Charlie Clark joined Government Executive in the fall of 2009. He has been on staff at The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly, National Journal, Time-Life Books, Tax Analysts, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, and the National Center on Education and the Economy. He has written or edited online news, daily news stories, long features, wire copy, magazines, books and organizational media strategies.
Senate-passed Defense bill would cap contractor pay
December 2, 2011 The 2012 Defense authorization bill, which the Senate passed Thursday night in a 93-7 vote, includes an amendment to cap the amount that defense contractors can be reimbursed for any employee's salary at $400,000. Such a cap is opposed by many in the contractor community, and the Obama administration has ...
Obama orders upgrades to energy efficiency of federal buildings
December 2, 2011 President Obama on Friday issued a presidential memorandum implementing a $2 billion plan to upgrade federal buildings for energy efficiency. The move follows the administration's earlier jobs push and Obama's more recent efforts to draw attention to the jobs bills stalled in Congress. "Upgrading the energy efficiency of America's buildings ...
Contracting officers must be willing to take risks, panel says
December 1, 2011 Smart contracting in a time of tight budgets requires a trained agency acquisition workforce that is willing to take reasonable risks to achieve innovation, federal procurement specialists said in Washington on Thursday. In a discussion headlined "Innovation in a Budget-Constrained Environment," the Congressional Smart Contracting Caucus, co-chaired by Reps. Rob ...
Trial By Fire
December 1, 2011 The National Labor Relations Board strives to remain neutral while adjudicating cases in a political pressure cooker. The work is not always pleasant at a so-called rogue agency. Ask any of the 1,600 employees at the National Labor Relations Board, where life has not been the same since the agency ...
Perry’s jab at federal workers draws rebuttal
November 30, 2011 Texas Gov. Rick Perry punctuated a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Tuesday with a blast at federal employees he envisions thwarting state efforts to gain greater control over federal dollars. "If you have Health and Human Service[s] bureaucrats who try to block our being able to block-grant dollars back ...
Justice’s grant to ACORN-related group misused, says watchdog
November 30, 2011 A New York City community organizing group that received a Justice Department grant to teach students leadership skills failed to follow requirements for documenting its spending, according to a report the Justice inspector general's office released Wednesday. The $138,130 grant awarded in 2005 to the New York Agency for Community ...
Agencies improve management through analytics, report says
November 30, 2011 Federal agency managers are demonstrating measurable improvements in programs by integrating data-based analytics in decision making, according to a study released Wednesday by the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service and the IBM Center for the Business of Government. The study, "From Data to Decisions: The Power of Analytics," reviews managers' ...
Defunct Agency Still Missed
November 29, 2011 Newt Gingrich's rise in the presidential polling has prompted at least one commentator to join an old chorus bemoaning the loss 15 years ago of an agency once revered on Capitol Hill. The Office of Technology Assessment from 1972 to 1995 provided Congress with nonpartisan scientific studies of the impact ...
HHS rolls out new grants for state health care exchanges
November 29, 2011 Continuing its push to help states establish the health insurance exchanges under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, the Health and Human Services Department on Tuesday announced 13 new grant awards totaling $220 million. The department is providing cash and administrative guidance to encourage states to prepare exchanges to be operational ...
Navy’s amphibious fleet could fall short of goals, CBO says
November 28, 2011 The Navy's hopes to grow its fleet of amphibious ships are apt to go unfulfilled during much of the next 30 years, according to a recent Congressional Budget Office report. The nonpartisan analysis does not factor in the new likelihood of further Pentagon budget cuts. The Navy currently deploys 29 ...
