SmartContracting Daily Intel for Sept. 12, 2012

In today's news...

Huntsville Times: Sequestration budget cuts unknown, but expert tells Huntsville companies they can prepare - a little 

http://bit.ly/PbyOZ0

Federal News Radio: OFPP keeping a close eye on struggling acquisition system consolidation

http://bit.ly/QFBlwl

Government Executive: Obama v. Romney on federal pay, the size of government and management

http://bit.ly/NoiqGC

Government Executive: House speaker 'not confident' of getting fiscal cliff deal

http://bit.ly/Noit5d

Heritage: Government Employees Work Less than Private-Sector Employees

http://herit.ag/OGHsha

How to Weather a Budgetary Freeze: Defrost Collaboration

The President’s call in his State of the Union address for strategic and targeted investments and cuts to address the growing deficit and debt is welcomed, but, by his own admission, mere budgetary tweaking won’t avoid the type of crises now facing our allies abroad from taking hold here at home.

In fact, arbitrarily freezing program spending, federal employee salaries and hiring may cause greater problems by understaffing and under-resourcing the very agencies charged with addressing our nation’s many challenges. As such, agencies need to thaw their frozen communications with their private sector partners and take a more collaborative approach to implementing the President’s domestic discretionary spending freeze.

PSC President and CEO Stan Soloway outlined how an approach driven by open communication and collaboration across sectors could work in his latest Washington Technology column and in a statement after the State of the Union.