FDA on Track
Accountable, effective government took another significant step forward recently. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cut the ribbon on its FDA-TRACK management system, advancing the President’s...
View ArticleSending Out to SES
The country faces extraordinary challenges – from growing our economy to transforming our energy supply, improving our children’s education, safeguarding our Nation, and restoring its fiscal health....
View ArticleCutting Costs in Financial Systems
As I’ve blogged about previously, the President is committed to changing how Washington does business. That’s why we launched the Accountable Government Initiative - to eliminate what doesn’t work,...
View ArticleSeeing Eye to Eye with the Tech CEO Council
Today, the Technology CEO Council released a report outlining a plan to “maximize productivity…and enhance government services” through the use of technology. This distinguished group of corporate...
View ArticleKeeping a Close Eye on Recovery Act Dollars
From the beginning, the President and Vice President have demanded an unprecedented level of accountability and transparency from recipients of Recovery Act funds. Tens of thousands of recipients are...
View ArticleClosing the IT Gap: An Update
As part of the President’s Accountable Government Initiative, OMB along with our colleagues throughout the federal government has been launching a series of initiatives to close the “technology gap”...
View ArticleReal Update on Real Property
As I’ve written about before, as part of the President’s Accountable Government Initiative, we are taking aggressive steps to save taxpayer dollars while making government work better, harder and more...
View ArticleCeasing Checks to the Deceased
Whether the budget is in surplus or in deficit, we cannot tolerate the wasting of taxpayer dollars – and there are few more egregious examples of waste than improper payments. These are payments made...
View ArticleVote Now: The President's 2010 SAVE Award Finalists
President Obama and this Administration have taken steady steps to change the way business is done in Washington and make government more effective and efficient for the American people – for today...
View ArticleEvery Vote Counts to SAVE
More than 45,000 people have made their voices heard in selecting this year’s winner of the President’s SAVE Award – and there is still time for you to vote too. Just go to www.SAVEAward.gov, take a...
View ArticleAnd the Top SAVER is...
Over 57,000 of you have spoken, and the winner of the 2010 SAVE Award is Trudy Givens of Portage, Wisconsin. Trudy is a 19-year veteran of the US Bureau of Prisons, working now as a Business...
View ArticleImproper Payment Progress
Readers of OMBlog are now quite familiar with the Administration’s determined effort to cut the billions of dollars wasted each year in improper payments -- payments made by the government to the...
View ArticleDriving IT Reform: An Update
Tackling the information technology gap between the public and private sectors is one of most effective ways we can make government work more effectively and efficiently for the American people. IT...
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Cutting Costs by Getting Rid of Government Buildings We Don't Need
In the White House Briefing Room today, I announced a new proposal to create a Civilian Property Realignment Board to help the Federal government cut through red tape and politics to sell property it...
View ArticleTwo More Steps Toward Better Government
Competing in the global economy will take cutting our deficits while investing in the areas critical to long-term economic growth and competitiveness. By out-educating, out-innovating, and...
View ArticleReviewing Reorg
The world has changed a lot since the 1950s, the last time a major reorganization of the federal government occurred. Our lives today are totally different from those of our grandparents and the era...
View ArticleSaving Money by Selling Excess Property
As we look at our fiscal situation, the President understands that the Federal Government must do what American families are doing all across the country: find ways to live within our means and invest...
View ArticleMaking Government Work in the Global Economy
The last time the Federal government was significantly reorganized was in the age of black and white TV – a time when the global economy looked quite different from today. As many of you know, the...
View ArticleAccountability in Federal Contracting
With more than one out of every six dollars of Federal government spending going to contractors, increasing accountability and saving money in contracting is critical to creating a Federal government...
View ArticleShutting Down Duplicative Data Centers
Just as our cell phones and computers have gotten progressively more efficient over the past decade, so too have data servers. However, the government has not taken advantage of the increasing...
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