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The Office of Management and Budget is a cabinet-rank office within the Executive Office of the President (EOP). The OMB was organized by the Nixon administration from the previous Bureau of the Budget. Its main function is to assist the president in overseeing the formation of the budget and its implementation in government agencies.
The management component of OMB oversees personnel, information technology, financial transactions and federal procurement policy-related actions. One of the offices within this side of the OMB is the Office of E-Government and Information Technology (E-Gov), which is headed by the appointed federal government's chief information officer. Click here for a complete organizational chart. Agency officials often elaborate on official memoranda and executive orders with posts to the OMB blog. The OMB website also has interactive features to help citizens better understand the budget, such as this fiscal 2012 budget tool.
NewsOMB Shared First should include open source, says group
Open source advocates urge the Office of Management and Budget to expand its Shared First strategy to include open source software development in a Feb. 2 comment posted online. OMB released Dec. 8 a Read more...
White House standards memo sends strong signal, says Saunders
A Jan. 17 White House memo on the importance of private sector involvement in standards-setting sends an important message to federal agencies and foreign governments, said Mary Saunders, director of Read more...
Shared services still a challenge, says CIO
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services is doing more to leverage shared services for information technology, according to Tony Trenkle, chief information officer of CMS. And while the strategy Read more...
VanRoekel to release final federal mobility strategy by March
A final version of a federal mobility strategy will be out by March 2012, said Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel Jan. 13 during a Washington, D.C. event hosted by industry group Read more...
OMB drafting governmentwide mobile strategy
The Office of Management and Budget unveiled Jan. 11 the outline of a draft federal mobile strategy and kicked off a 10-day national dialogue on improving citizen services and federal workforce Read more...
OMB: Agencies will shut down 40% of data centers
The Office of Management and Budget has expanded its estimate of data centers agencies will close by the end of fiscal 2012 to 1,200. In a Dec. 20 blog post, Federal Chief Information Officer Steven Read more...
VanRoekel pushes 'smart' federal website reform
A new report that aims to map the federal web universe reveals a sprawling collection of .gov websites, but Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel says it presents a chance to find Read more...
E-gov persists as separate fund; OMB gets $5 million for shared services development
Various efforts by the Office of Management and Budget and General Services Administration to boost the White House information technology agenda will continue to receive funding this fiscal year Read more...
Share, says OMB
Another administration, a new federal chief information officer--and another new attempt to have federal agencies treat information technology as a commodity to be shared across agency lines. The Read more...
GAO: IT Dashboard better, still has problems
Information on the Office of Management and Budget's online dashboard of federal agency performance in implementing information technology systems is not as inaccurate as it once was says the Read more...
| Press ReleasesPresident Obama Announces Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Jeffrey ZientsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 17, 2012 WASHINGTON, DC - Today the White House announced that current Deputy Director for Management and Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients will serve as the Read more >> President Obama Signs Executive Order to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal WorkforceWashington, DC - Today, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order (EO) titled "Establishing a Coordinated Government-Wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Read more >> CAGW Unimpressed by President’s Wasteful Anti-Waste BoardWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW), the nation’s premier taxpayer watchdog group, issued a statement criticizing President Obama’s executive order to Read more >> Chief Counsel Applauds OSHA Withdrawal of RuleAdvocacy-OSHA to Hold Meeting to Seek Small Business Input WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Chief Counsel for Advocacy Winslow Sargeant today applauded a decision by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Read more >> ACT-IAC Applauds Office of Management and Budget Strategy to Improve Major Information Technology AcquisitionsMany of the initiatives consistent with recommendations ACT-IAC made in Oct. 22 report to OMB FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council Read more >> |
