Federal Manager's Daily Report Monday, August 16, 2004 Published by FEDweek, the federal government's largest information resource with now over one million weekly readers to its electronic newsletters.
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Management Agenda a Success, Says OMB The Office of Management and Budget has issued a report three years after the president's management agenda was launched in August 2001, calling it a success and claiming that it has made the federal government more results oriented because of new management habits and disciplines. The report claims that continued use of the PMA could help eliminate $35 billion in improper payments each year, and that competitive sourcing could help save $5 billion per year, although such savings are largely projected have not yet been realized, according to another OMB report on competitive sourcing issued earlier this year. The latest report claims the PMA is responsible for the improved performance of a number of agency initiatives for establishing clear goals and standards for success around which agencies have come to develop and implement detailed and aggressive action plans. The report -- titled "The Federal Government is Results Oriented" - said that over the past three years the number of agency initiatives that were rated red on OMB's traffic light style score card dropped from 110 to 49 of the 130 total overall, with 27 being green and 54 yellow, a demonstration of improved management. More agencies have evaluation systems that define expectations and performance: 92 percent have strategies to develop future leaders; 92 percent have identified skills gaps in critical occupations and 77 percent are working to reduce or them, and 65 percent have performance evaluation systems that more clearly define what is expected of each employee and how they are performing relative to those expectations, said the report. It said that in the area of competitive sourcing, agencies spent $88 million out of pocket in fiscal 2003, representing 660 competitions that could lead to over $1 billion in savings over three to five years -- though such savings have yet to be realized and OMB has acknowledged that it currently lacks the ability to adequately measure them. Departments are preparing audited financial statements more quickly due to new financial management disciplines, said the report. It said 70 percent of federal IT systems are secure now whereas just 26 were rated secure three years ago, and that the federal government is systematically looking for opportunities to improve program effectiveness. 2. Army Establishes NSPS Working Groups The Army has established working groups on the "national security personnel system" that are expected to work through August and September on the design of the new system, which will allow Defense Department agencies wide latitude in job classification, pay, union and appeal rights and other areas. The working groups are aligned to the following areas: compensation; performance management; workforce hiring, assignment, pay setting and workforce shaping; employee engagement and appeals; and labor relations. Information sources will include focus groups, town hall meetings and meetings with union leaders. Also to be considered are data review and analysis from alternative personnel systems and laboratory demonstration projects already under way, plus the NSPS statute itself and earlier studies. The Army also has developed information papers that identify topics for working group consideration. 3. IRS To Cut Nearly 500 Employees Following Competition Studies The Internal Revenue Service has plans to cut 274 jobs in its three area distribution centers as well as 218 IT positions from its "MITS" modernization and IT services operations, following competitive sourcing studies. Two distribution centers will be closed, one in Richmond, Va. accounting for 139 positions and another in Rancho Cardova, Calif., where 49 positions will be terminated. The Bloomington, Ill., center will stay open and lose 86 positions. The number of campus-operations MITS employees in its 10 service centers will be cut from 278 to 60 and each site will be reduced to five employees from the 19-36 campus operations employees currently at the service centers. The National Treasury Employees Union said IRS carried out the competitive sourcing studies, "to fulfill the administration's unstated quota of forcing federal agencies to compete certain percentages of jobs against the private sector," and said the losses could have been minimized through reorganization and streamlining to achieve its workforce goals. IRS has released a strategic plan for 2005 -- 2009 stating its intention to tighten operations and modernize business processes, and said it would devote more people to front line positions, leverage new technology, implement an improved personnel system and consolidate back-office case processing activities. IRS also said it would streamline the examination process to improve workload selection and casework quality and reduce cycle time, said NTEU. It said it is urging IRS to use buyouts, priority placement and a hiring freeze to safeguard current jobs, and to look into attrition and retraining to achieve workforce goals. 4. 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