Management

Agencies get finances in order

For the first time ever, half of the 24 largest federal agencies have submitted clean and on-time audit opinions to Congress.

Management

Reforms in Bush budget include anti-shutdown measure

The threat of government shutdowns would no longer loom over federal workers under a proposal included in President Bush’s budget outline.

Management

Bush not linking performance to budget yet

President Bush’s first budget will not include provisions that tie federal agencies’ funding to management performance, a top architect of the President’s budget said Tuesday.

Defense

Air Force contract bundling effort upheld

The General Accounting Office has ruled that a huge Air Force weapons maintenance contract does not violate laws designed to protect small businesses from bundled contracting practices.

Management

Panel pushes Pentagon privatization

Management

OMB chief presses outsourcing, management cuts

Federal agency leaders should make plans to reduce their management staffs, expand outsourcing initiatives and increase e-government efforts, OMB Director Mitchell Daniels said in a recent memorandum.