{"id":18066,"date":"2019-10-23T15:22:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/23\/top-management-official-wants-a-more-agile-government\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:47:18","slug":"top-management-official-wants-a-more-agile-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/it-networks\/2019\/10\/23\/top-management-official-wants-a-more-agile-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Top management official wants a more \u2018agile\u2019 government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PHILADELPHIA \u2014 A senior Office of Management and Budget official pledged to remove structural impediments hindering the federal government\u2019s ability to adapt to changing technology and workforce needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OMB Deputy Director of Management Margaret Weichert, speaking Oct. 22 at the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council Imagine Nation conference, said that current government procedures are preventing the government from being agile. Therefore, her priority is to find those areas where government policies prevent modernization and fix them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhile I\u2019m here, I\u2019m going to continue to look for those real cases where we have a use case that we need to get something done in government and there\u2019s something structural in the way,” Weichert said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an example, she cited the federal government\u2019s cyber reskilling academy\u2019s inability to place its graduates into cybersecurity jobs in government because of requirements in OPM\u2019s general schedule for employee hiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\t