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We're back with another #FOGN this week as Dan Chenok, Executive Director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government joins to talk about the Center's 25th anniversary and the decades of outstanding work it has undertaken in order to improve government management.
Show Notes
IBM Center for the Business of Government
AFCEA Bethesda Health IT Summit 2024 (January 30-31)
ACT-IAC Acquisition Forum (January 31)
HSGAC Business Meeting (January 31)
Results for America: Celebrating 5 Years of the Evidence Act (January 31)
Another Friend of GovNavigators (#FOGN) Kris Rowley, the Chief Data Officer of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors joins the GovNavigators Show to ruminate on popular depictions of oversight of the banking community, the importance of data and data management and whether AI will rise up and destroy humanity. You don't want to miss this one.
Show Links
It's a Wonderful Life: Better in Color or Black and White?
Conference of State Bank Supervisors
Upcoming Events
Coleridge Initiative’s Data for Evidence-building Webinar
AFCEA DC's Monthly Luncheon: DISA's 2024 Priorities
AGA's Wake up Wednesday Webinar: Finding the Data to Drive Improved Performance: Tips for Government Practitioners
Friend of GovNavigators (#FOGN) Charles Cooper (aka Mr. Sunshine) joins the show again to preview the upcoming legislative agenda in Congress in 2024 and how the presidential election will impact what gets done (and what doesn't). Despite his perfect record predicting tough legislative outcomes, we're sure he'll hit a roadbump sometime in 2024.
Robert and Adam also mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day and review the latest happenings in government management.
Show Notes
Brumidi Group
Wasabi Fenway Bowl Results
HSGAC AI Hearing: Wonder Women of Tech
January 17: AGA Webinar: Uniform Guidance and Grant Accounting
Friend of GovNavigators (FOGN) Kyle Murphy, Founder of Alpha Advisors, joins the show to talk about the promise and perils of AI tools in 2024. Robert and Adam also cover some hot topics from the break at the top of the episode and preview the week ahead.
Show Links
OMB Memo on FAQs on Discretionary Spending Limits
Searchable Online Plum Book
Harvard study on AI's impact on knowledge workers (TL;DR: NY Times's coverage)
Well, we knew this day was bound to come. The GovNavigators have run out of podcast guests....I mean friends. No - just kidding. Instead, listen this week to hear a recap of the year in government management (and much more) from Robert and Adam.
This week on the GovNavigators Show, Larry Allen of Allen Federal Business Partners, one of the most knowledgable government acquisition experts in the business joins to share his view of federal contracting right now and gives some end of calendar year advice to both contractors and agencies. He also outs himself as a lover of the pre-shot clock era four corners offense in basketball!
Show Notes
Status of FY24 Appropriations
ATARC 2023 CIO Summit
The GovNavigators chat it up this week with the woman in charge of "sparking new life" into the workforce of the Internal Revenue Service. Chief Human Capital Officer Traci DiMartini shares some of the reasons she decided to leave GSA to head up HR at the IRS, why a sense of humor is the best tool in her HR toolbox, and what big plans are in store for one of the best funded agencies in the government.
This week, Dan Pomeroy, Deputy Associate Administrator at the Office of Technology Policy at GSA joins the show to talk about the Biden Administration's work to create a more open and accountable government through the fifth National Open Government Action Plan.
Show Notes
White House Press Release on Fifth Open Government Action Plan
Fifth Open Government Action Plan
Section508.gov
Accessibility Requirements Tool (ART)
Fed Gov Today Host and (Best?) Friend of GovNavigators Francis Rose joins the show to discuss the latest happenings in government management, his new gig, and proper holiday salutations. Francis remembers his FedHeads hosting days, his beginnings working in government media, and the lost of our friend Charlie Clark.
Show Links
Saying Goodbye to a Giant in Government Journalism
The GovNavigators ship has come in! This week, Reps. Derek Kilmer (D-WA) and William Timmons (R-SC), leaders of the former House Select Committee on Modernization of Congress, come on the show to share details about their groundbreaking, successful work trying to fix Congress. Their innovative approach to the Select committee (and the new bipartisan Fix Congress Caucus) made over 200 recommendations to improve the way Congress works - many of which have already been implemented.
And they are actually pretty funny too. This episode of the GovNavigators Show can’t be missed.
Show Links
Final Report of the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress
Washington Post Profile of Select Committee
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