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  3. About Office of Management and Budget

    }}The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is a Cabinet-level office, and is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). It is an important conduit by which the White House oversees the activities of federal agencies. OMB is tasked with giving expert advice to senior White House officials on a range of topics relating to federal policy, management, legislative, regulatory, and budgetary issues. The bulk of OMB's 500 employees are charged with monitoring the adherence of their assigned federal programs to presidential policies. OMB performs its coordination role by gathering, filtering, and promulgating the President's annual budget request, by issuing circulars dictating agency management practices, by overseeing the "President's Management Agenda",[http://www.whitehouse.gov/results/] and by reviewing agency regulations. The Office contains significant numbers of both career and politically appointed staff; OMB staff provide important continuity within the EOP since several hundred career professionals remain in their positions regardless of which party occupies the White House. Six positions within OMB — the director, the deputy director, the deputy director for management, and the administrators of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, and the Office of Federal Financial Management — are presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed positions.

    Jim Nussle was confirmed as Director of OMB on September 4, 2007, replacing Rob Portman.

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    2. US Government to Close More Than 1000 Federal Data Centers by 2015

      Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 21 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

      US Government to Close More Than 1000 Federal Data Centers by 2015 ... the government on track to close 1,080 data centers by 2015. This comes within arm's length of the Office of Management and Budget's goal of closing 40 percent, or 1,200 data centers, over the next five years. The OMB established ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget

    3. Federal Data Center Consolidation: By The Numbers

      Explore InformationWeek (Nov 16 2011) Cloud Computing

      Federal Data Center Consolidation: By The Numbers ...om more than 2,000 to about 1,200 by 2015, according to Lisa Schlosser, deputy administrator of the Office of Management and Budget's office of e-government and IT. The government says it's ahead of its initial schedule, and plans... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Department of Homeland Security   Department of Energy   Office of Management and Budget

    4. White House Names a New Chief of Information Technology

      Explore The New York Times (Aug 4 2011) Cloud Computing

      White House Names a New Chief of Information Technology ...rend of productivity growth in the private sector, said Jeffrey D. Zients, a deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, has been about 1.5 percent a year. Yet productivity growth in the federal government, he noted, ha... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Barack Obama   Harvard   Office of Management and Budget

    5. Why shutting down 800 federal data centers won’t be easy

      Explore GigaOM (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing

      Why shutting down 800 federal data centers won’t be easy ... federal agencies have until Oct. 7 to present their plans for slashing data center footprints. The Office of Management and Budget has mandated that by 2015, the government must reduce its current stable of roughly 2,094 data cent... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Juniper Networks   Office of Management and Budget

    6. Federal Agencies Given Until October to Detail Data Center Consolidation

      Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jul 27 2011) Cloud Computing

      Federal Agencies Given Until October to Detail Data Center Consolidation July 27, 2011 -- In the latest update in the ongoing initiative to consolidate government-wide  data centers, federal CIO Vivek Kundra has implemented a new set of deadlines for federal agencies in which they must outline their consolidation plans on their websites by October 7. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget   Vivek Kundra   General Services Administration

    7. US Government Names 114 Data Centers to Close by End of Year

      Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jul 21 2011) Cloud Computing

      US Government Names 114 Data Centers to Close by End of Year ...ion's Campaign to Cut Waste, according to a report by Data Center Knowledge. A list released by the Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday identified 114 facilities to close between now and the end of the year, and 178 data c... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget   Vivek Kundra   Data Center Knowledge

    8. Feds Will Shutter 137 Data Centers in 2011

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 28 2011) Cloud Computing

      Feds Will Shutter 137 Data Centers in 2011 ...plementation plan also calls for the details of the consolidation to be shared with the public. The Office of Management and Budget “will launch a publicly available dashboard to serve as a window into progress of the data center c... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget   Vivek Kundra   Department of Agriculture

    9. OMB Thinks Green on Data Center Consolidation

      Explore Executive Gov (Dec 1 2010) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

      OMB Thinks Green on Data Center Consolidation Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has long promoted the Office of Management and Budget’s efforts to shutter government data centers in a push to save costs and prepare the foundation for... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget   Vivek Kundra   Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative

    10. Is Kundra's data center consolidation initiative doomed?

      Explore Federal Computer Week (Nov 3 2010)

      Is Kundra's data center consolidation initiative doomed? ... the dispersed and nonstandard nature of many federal IT assets. In two years, the officials at the Office of Management and Budget who hatched the plan might not be around. Given the hurdles, is FDCCI worth the effort? After all, ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget   Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative

    11. Feds Discover 1,000 More Data Centers

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 13 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Feds Discover 1,000 More Data Centers ...he plans and budgets submitted by federal agencies are being reviewed by the administration and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), with a goal of approving final plans by Dec. 31. The process got underway back in March, w... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Uptime Institute   Office of Management and Budget   Vivek Kundra

    12. Homeland Security’s Private Cloud

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      Homeland Security’s Private Cloud ... how we improve this situation is very critical. It has my attention, and the attention of the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) as well.” One of the issues is turnover. Spires just hit his one-year anniversary on the job, and ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget   CSC

    13. Gov 2.0 Week in Review - Closing the IT gap, looking back at PDF, considering cloud computing and looking ahead to DC ...

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      Gov 2.0 Week in Review - Closing the IT gap, looking back at PDF, considering cloud computing and looking ahead to DC ... ...bout with Gov 2.0 Events," tweeted Tim O'Reilly earlier this week. Peter R. Orszag, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, spoke at length at the Center for American Progress on a "significant IT gap" that has developed b... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York Times   Amazon.com   Carol Browner

    14. Government Outlines Data Center Consolidation Goals

      Explore InformationWeek (May 12 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Government Outlines Data Center Consolidation Goals ... at the end of April, when agencies were required to submit an initial data center inventory to the Office of Management and Budget. Initial data center plans are due at the end of June, and ongoing monitoring of agency efforts beg... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Office of Management and Budget

    15. New Study Released on the State of Virtualization in Federal Agencies

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      ...are of particular importance given the raised levels of government IT activity driven by the recent Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Federal Data Center Initiative. The OMB mandate requires all agencies to take decisive steps ... (Read Full Article)

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    16. Uncle Sam wants green data centers - by Doug Mohney

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      Uncle Sam wants green data centers - by Doug Mohney ...rvers based upon an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated generated on 2006 data. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is now in the process of collecting updated statistics from all agencies, including details o... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Barack Obama   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

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