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Recovering from the Recovery Act (Part 5)

Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 - 13:43
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John M. Kamensky
Tuesday, July 24, 2012 - 13:38
Since 2009, the public has been able to track the outlay of more than $275 billion in federal contracts, grants, and loans as a result of the unprecedented transparency and accountability provisions included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act), part of the federal economic stimulus program.
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Recovering from the Recovery Act: Part 4

Monday, June 4th, 2012 - 16:51
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John M. Kamensky
While there are debates as to whether the Recovery Act saved the economy or not, the one thing that has not been in the headlines was the way federal agency leaders implemented more than 200 programs that were used to distribute the money. 
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Key Actions That Contribute to Successful Program Implementation: Lessons from the Recovery Act

Friday, June 1st, 2012 - 11:44
Author(s): 
Richard F. Callahan, D.P.A.
Dr. Sandra O. Archibald
Kay A. Sterner
H. Brinton Milward, Ph.D.
Historically, spending under stimulus legislation tended to peak after a recession was over, oftentimes creating inflation instead of jobs. To avoid this, the Recovery Act man­dated tight timeframes, with 70 percent of the money required to be spent within 17 months to generate jobs. There was significant concern that this rapid spending might result in an estimated $50 billion in waste, fraud, or abuse. Accordingly, there were stringent transparency and accountability requirements embedded in the law.
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Virginia’s Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: Forging a New Intergovernmental Partnership

Friday, November 18th, 2011 - 12:15
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Anne M. Khademian
Sang Ok Choi
ARA funds were accompanied by a new, centralized system of strict financial accountability and performance reporting, with frequent reporting requirements. These new requirements, as well as the rapid implementation timeframe required by ARA, created an enormous implementation challenge for all the participants in our federal-state-local-nonprofit intergovernmental system.

The Virginia Implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 - 10:30
Author(s): 
Anne M. Khademian
Sang Ok Choi
These funds were accompanied by a new, centralized system of strict financial accountability and perfor­mance reporting, with frequent reporting requirements. These new requirements, as well as the rapid implementation time­frame required by the Recovery Act, created an enormous implementation challenge for all the participants in our federal-state-local-non­profit intergovernmental system.
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Implementing the Recovery Act: The Blog

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 - 16:07
The Recovery Act is quietly influencing federal-state-local relations.  Not only is the money being used to save jobs as states and localities cut back their budgets, but the ways states and localities are choosing to use and report on the funds are creating different ways for getting “the business of government” done.
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Topic 2: Implementing the Recovery Act

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 - 16:42
Congress passed the $787 billion Recovery Act in early 2009.  The Act – sometimes referred to as the stimulus bill – focused on job creation, but it does so through hundreds of existing and new federal programs.  Implementing these programs falls on the shoulders of thousands of state, local, non-profit, and private organizations.  The Act also spawned new governance models.  What are the implications of these models for national policy leadership, accountability, and our federal system?
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Caution in Spending Stimulus Monies

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 - 7:20
The caution flags continue to fly when it comes to moving quickly to spend stimulus funds.  The Wall Street Journal last week noted that:
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RAT Board Chair Named

Monday, February 23rd, 2009 - 9:59
The Stimulus Bill is big on accountability and action on this front seems to be moving quickly, maybe even quicker than action on implementation of the bill itself!  
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Dwight E. Thomas

I would like to assist the RAT board based on my experience and expertise in the area of contracting oversight. I am a former Senior DoD Acquisition official who had authority for a major Presidential program and was also a former Regional Director of a DoD contracting organization which provided oversight for all government contracts in the SW U. S. Please advise where I can send my resume/bio/credentials.

Dwight E. Thomas
COL, USA (Ret)
Cell (571) 242-4982 dethomas75@yahoo.com
Former Assistant to the Secretary of the Army (Clinton Administration)
Former Director and Deputy Director of Contracting for the President's Ballistic Missile Defense System
Former Regional Director for the Defense Contract Management Agency, Dallas, Texas

02/23/2009 - 20:20
John Kamensky

Mr. Thomas -- The White House Personnel Office has a link for job applications. An appointment, though, for a military or civilian retiree may mean a pension offset! Here's the link: https://app2.whitehouse.gov/ppo/

02/24/2009 - 10:12
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Keep looking I have just read your site aand quite frankly I have a large frog in my throat,

11/18/2009 - 19:17
John Kamensky

Don't swallow! :)

11/19/2009 - 00:24
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Avoiding a Parallel Government

Friday, February 20th, 2009 - 16:36
 The Stimulus Bill contains an enormous number of reporting requirements.
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Norman M. Macdonald

The gate keepers of the IT Community will be a real problem. The have to learn faith and respect rather than command and control. The information must be generated at ground level.The old tool of cascading mailing lists is still in use plus tools like wikki's, Skype and interactive web sites.This whole package should be looked upon as a large step to collaborative governance.

02/22/2009 - 23:00
Anne Laurent

John--So glad to see this. I have been talking about the "parallel government" since this guidance came out. It's going to be a fascinating ride. It seems unlikley to avoid such a thing however. Already one senses a division between agencies and people involved with recovery and recovery dollars and those in the "old government." This seems to be true within OMB and within agencies. The real interesting moment will be when the 2010 budget comes out with guidance very similar to the stimulus guidance. Then what?
It also appears that Vivek Kundra plans to triage a huge number of legacy computer systems that now deliver program information. My bet is that most of them end up being terminated with only a few being modernized. That, or he has a massive data warehousing/business intelligence plan!

02/24/2009 - 10:39
John Milligan

I assume they "parallel govt" will still have to comply with the Federal Records Act and all the other records/document/IT related regs from OMB A-130 thru to e-Gov. As long as they can effectively capture the record (from whatever source) and maintain it for as long as it is needed and mandated by law, then I say fine. Go for it. But do not short-shrift those regulations and maintainin an authentic record in all this even all the Web 2.0 and 3.0 stuff. If you do not do that up front, then forget about true responsibility/accountability/transparency that is above all so vitally needed. I just hope our eyes are not bigger than our stomachs on this point.

02/24/2009 - 18:47
John Kamensky

John -- Many of the provisions in the final bill are actuallly stricter than current law, and there is more oversight involved. For example, all funds (not just funds above $25,000) have to be reported; all contracts must be competed (last year, only about half were competed) unless an exception is given and then the explanation must be posted on Recovery.gov; and all contracts must be firm-fixed price, not time-and-material -- again, unless an exception is given and then the rationale must be posted on Recovery.gov.

02/24/2009 - 19:09
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