These and other seemingly commonsensical budget cuts can be found in an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) report released yesterday.

A project by the nation's Chief Information Officer, Vivek Kundra, has lead to the suspension of some 45 information technology (IT) projects at the Veterans Administration. Unveiled earlier this month, the “'IT Dashboard' is a new, one-stop clearinghouse of information that allows anyone with a web browser to track federal IT initiatives..."

I just finished up an interview about our new report Building a Better Government Performance System on Federal News Radio. The segment was a part of The Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris and I got to talk a bit about the unique process we used to develop these recommendations to the Obama administration and some of the implications of those recommendations on current performance measurement systems.

You can listen to the interview on the Federal News Radio Daily Debrief webpage or download the mp3 of the broadcast.

In a report released today, the IRS Oversight Board recommended that Congress increase the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) FY 2010 budget by $363 million over what the Obama administration requested. The independent panel, which Congress created in 1998, cited the "IRS's archaic computer systems," a lack of adequate computer hardware and IT infrastructure, and the need for better taxpayer service programs as targets for the extra money. Unfortunately, the report comes a tad late.