TSA IdeaFactory Tina Cariola, Program Manager, TSA Web-based tool empowering employing to submit ideas, provide comments on how to improve new concepts, etc. IdeaFactory launched in April 2007 to address 3 key needs: Engage employees — 50,000+ workforce spread all over the country Collect constant fresh input about how to improve safety and operations DisseminateRead… Read more »
From The Acquisition Corner An interesting action plan for speeding up the procurement process for Recovery procurements was recently proposed by Dr. Allan Burman, who served as administrator of federal procurement policy in the Office of Management and Budget. His plan, which was conducted as an interview with CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government, outlined anRead… Read more »
From Leadership descriptions and configurations of the roles of leadership, management and supervision vary widely. I have come to the conclusion that there can never be a final answer because no one can understand and implement their understanding in their lifetime. What we can do is accept that there are many fine people who wouldRead… Read more »
The US-Mexican ‘”frontera” is a hot spot for turf rumbles and tariff tussles, on a personal and national scale. At this month’s Leaders Summit in Guadalajara. Presidents Calderon and Obama and Prime Minister Harper classically ducked the thorny subject of NAFTA’s stalled agreement for bi-national trucking reciprocity for Mexico. I suppose Mr. Harper got smartRead… Read more »
As a wee one, sometimes I would lie in bed and keep myself awake thinking of scenarios I didn’t have the answers to, trying to wrap my mind around some concept that was pretty grandiose. Like, “what if there was no earth and no planets and no stars and no moon or sun – whatRead… Read more »
‘The BIG Experience’ is a weekly radio broadcast sponsored by Blacks in Government (BIG) that airs every Thursday at 11a ET. The show is designed to address a variety of issues that affect government employees at the Federal, state and local levels and to inform the overall community of scheduled events with the African-American andRead… Read more »
Since 1997 the House uses the World Net of Computers–Internet for popularization of your Legislative works. Being used of simple resources and of low cost, we got to transmit the Sessions Plenary, live, guaranteeing to the citizen the possibility to accompany him/it day by day of your parliamentarian. I Begin it: In a change inRead… Read more »
A union representing postal supervisors, managers and postmasters wants President Obama to reconsider his recent comments that compared the Postal Service with UPS and FedEx. In a letter sent late last week to the White House, National Association of Postal Supervisors President Ted Keating informed Obama of his union’s “collective disappointment that you chose theRead… Read more »
Public Financial Publications (PFP), the publisher of Public Budgeting & Finance (PB&F), is pleased to announce a program of financial support for new, strong academic research in the federal budget and the federal budget process. Unprecedented challenges face the federal government in the next several years as it confronts extraordinary fiscal challenges. In that environment,Read… Read more »
Tradewinds and Lloyds List report authorities have arrested up to eight suspects related to the missing Russian ship, Arctic Sea. The missing ship was located off the coast of West Africa on Monday. According to news reports the suspects included Russians, Estonians, and Latvians. The Russian Navy has transferred the suspects from the Arctic SeaRead… Read more »