The Chief Performance Officer is, in my opinion, one of the most important posts in the government. (*Note: performance.gov is not up and running yet, but there's a link to the entire Accountable Government Initiative at the end of the article.)
Awesome that there's somebody out there working to reduce waste, redundancy, and inefficiency!
Watch Performance in Progress as CPO Jeffrey Zients Launches New Website | Executive Gov
"While recent administrations have seen between 15 to 20 percent of their proposed discretionary cuts actually enacted, the Administration worked with Congress to enact 60 percent of proposed discretionary cuts for FY 2010. Programs cut range from the F-22 fighter that the Pentagon said it didn’t need to a radio navigation system made obsolete by GPS.
*Saving $40 Billion in Contracting.
*Reducing No-Bid and Other High-Risk Contracts by 10 percent.
*Disposing of Unneeded Federal Real Estate to Save $8 billion.
*Cracking Down to Reduce Improper Payments by $50 billion.
There's a lot more, but these are few highlights."
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