OMB: No More Lavish Government Conferences

Originally posted by Elizabeth Flock on U.S. News

New guidelines from the U.S. Office of Management and Budget say it's time to cut back on conference spending in light of the sequester. In a document, the agency said it had "taken aggressive steps to curtail conference spending," such as ensuring conferences that cost more than $100,000 were approved by the head of an agency, hotel costs were within per diem rates, and that a cyber conference was considered before any in-person event was planned.

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2012 HCMD Awards Finalists Announced

NEW YORK, NY -- The 6th Annual Human Capital Management for Defense (HCMD) Award nominees are in and three finalists from each category have been selected by the expert panel of judges. This year's nominations came from offices and programs from across the federal government, representing the Army, Navy, Air Force, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Environmental Protection Agency and the Internal Revenue Service, just to name a few.
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