New House Digital Services Office seeks to fill gaps to modernize Congress

The House of Representatives Chief Administrative Office is close to adding another shared service to the 100 or so it already provides.</p> <p>These range from <a href=”https://cao.house.gov/about/business-units”>acquisition support to human resources</a> to finance and logistics. But the one area where those services were missing and sorely needed was around digital transformation.</p> <figure id=”attachment_4108481″ aria-describedby=”caption-attachment-4108481″ style=”width: 300px” class=”wp-caption alignright”><img loading=”lazy” class=”size-medium wp-image-4108481″ src=”https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-300×300.jpg” alt=”” width=”300″ height=”300″ srcset=”https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson.jpg 300w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-150×150.jpg 150w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-112×112.jpg 112w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-120×120.jpg 120w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-240×240.jpg 240w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-60×60.jpg 60w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-70×70.jpg 70w, https://federalnewsnetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/alan-thompson-200×200.jpg 200w” sizes=”(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px” /><figcaption id=”caption-attachment-4108481″ class=”wp-caption-text”>Alan Thompson is…

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OMB warns of hiring freeze, funding gaps, if Congress pursues full-year continuing resolution

Several agencies would lose out on funding needed to address new and emerging priorities if budget stalemates persist for the rest of the year, the Biden administration warned. OMB on Friday detailed a long list of administration priorities it believes would be under-funded or misaligned in the event Congress can’t pass dedicated, full-year funding for the rest of the fiscal year. The current continuing resolution, which provided agencies with temporary stop-gap funding needed to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, expires Dec. 3. The timeline to secure…

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