Lt. Gen. Susan Lawrence has officially taken the reigns as Army’s chief information officer. In her new role, Lawrence oversees Army’s $10 billion information technology budget and supports network operations, information management and other IT functions. “Right now, the network is the Army’s number one modernization effort,” Lawrence said in an online announcement. “We want a network that can provide Soldiers and civilians information of all categories and forms, as well as a means to collaborate in real-time, at the exact moment required, in any environment, under all circumstances.”
Monthly Archives: March, 2011
Warning: Killjoy alert! As you all know (because you’re probably reading this from your office instead of your home), Congress last week struck a deal to keep government operating for another two weeks. So here we are today, the first Monday into the new CR, and federal agencies are operating, citizens are getting their government services, and feds are getting paid. What’s not to love about that? According to today’s excellent-but-depressing blog post by former Capitol Hill staffer and Wall Street consultant Peter Davis, plenty. Davis dissects the predicament we find ourselves in and concludes that the big-picture budget outlook…
Well, chalk one up for congressional bipartisanship: Democrats and Republicans alike agree that lawmakers should have a say in the Obama administration’s government streamlining agenda. “Reorganization of the executive branch is a shared responsibility,” Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., the respective chairs of the main House and Senate government oversight committees, said in a Friday letter to Jeffrey Zients, one of the White House management officials leading the effort. Issa and Lieberman go on to ask for “a tentative timeline for development and implementation of the reorganization proposal, as well as regular updates during the review.”…
If all this cloud talk has your head spinning, you’ll appreciate the General Services Administration’s boiled down explanation. Check out the two-minute video on GSA’s YouTube channel.
President Obama will reveal a plan March 2 to accelerate the sale of federal property by forming an independent board that would recommend ways to dispose of unneeded federal buildings. According to an administration official, the board would be a mix of public and private sector representatives and could save the government $15 billion in its first three years. The official said it was an attempt to remove “red tape and politics” from the process.