GPRA Mod Act of 2010 Explained: Part 4

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Agency Performance Updates.  According to the Senate committee report, the new law:

“. . . requires agencies to provide a performance update at least annually, occurring no later than 150 days after the end of the fiscal year. However, agencies are encouraged to provide more frequent updates that would provide significant value to the federal government, Congress, or – as noted in the statute:  “. . . program partners at a reasonable level of administrative burden.” 

GPRA Mod Act of 2010 Explained: Part 3

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Agency Annual Performance Plans.  The Senate committee report notes:  “GPRA requires executive agencies to develop annual performance plans covering each program activity in the agencies’ budgets.”

It continues, noting that the new law:

Weekly Roundup: August 16 - 19, 2016

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Reforming the Budget Process.  Many of the key elements in the federal budget process have not been re-examined in a half a century.  Senate budget committee chair has made the case for fixing a broken process and proposes a set of 10 recommendations. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget analyzes these recommendations and provides context 

GPRA Mod Act of 2010 Explained: Part 2

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Agency Strategic Plans.  According to the Senate committee report accompanying the new law:

Weekly Round-up: January 07, 2011

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

 

GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 Explained: Part 1

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Background.  Congress recently passed – and President Obama just signed -- legislation updating the nearly 20-year-old Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA).  This update effort started several years ago through the efforts of Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX) then evolved more recently with support from Senators Tom Carper (D-DE) and

Blockchain-an Emerging Technology that has Promise to Address Functional and Security Needs in Healthcare IT

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Remember when businesses all kept their own ledgers, which required updates as each new business transaction occurred? How about the added expenses that had to be paid to intermediaries adding margin for services?  And what about the inefficiencies as each business in the network (supplier, buyer, seller) all recorded the same transactions in their individual ledgers? While many businesses and industries, including healthcare, still operate this way, an emerging technology has great potential to advance Healthcare IT across the economy and in the government, namely “Blockchain.”

Inducement Prizes, Contests, and Challenge Awards

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Why?  Because prizes are effective.  Under the right circumstances, they can be more effective than traditional investments in research and development.

Lowery says: “After falling out of favor for decades, such high-publicity, fat-reward contest came into vogue again in the aughts in the wake of the 1996 Ansari X Prize for advances in commercial spaceflight” which Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipOne won in 2004.

Our Top 10 Most-Read Blog Posts in 2010!

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1.      Congress Hits Refresh Button on the Results Act (October 5, 2010)

Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) summarized the need for a refresh when he introduced his bill with bipartisan support:  "Producing information does not by itself improve performance and experts from both sides of the aisle agree that the solutions developed in 1993 have not worked.”

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