We have been telling you about a number of management reorganizations at a number of agencies… Of course, the Agriculture Department has quietlyundertaken a significant reorganization of its agency management — read more here… There were also changes at the top ranks of the Department of Veterans Affairs management organization… The Department of Health and Human Services is also reorganizing its management structure, according to a Federal Register notice, creating the Office of Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management and Office of the Assistant Secretary for Resources and Technology...

The plan — and you can read all the documents here — essentially creates an uber-USDA "Departmental Administration" that includes most of the management functions — procurement, IT, HR, finance and budget — all under one umbrella.

UPDATE as of 1:20p ET:  W. Todd Grams, who serves as the chief financial officer at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology and previously served as the chief information officer at the Internal Revenue Service, will actually be the principal deputy assistant secretary for management starting Monday...

Agriculture Secretary Thomas Thomas J. Vilsack last week rolled out a major management reorganization of the agency that downgrades the roles of the USDA chief information officer and chief financial officer...

*Special Re-airing* Guest: Ricardo Aguilera, U.S. Department of Defense Comptroller Chair, CFO Academy Deloitte SME: Edward Van Buren, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP In fall 2008, the National Defense University's Information Resources Management College opened a Chief Financial Officer Academy at Fort McNair in Washington, DC, featuring Pentagongraduate level courses for government financial managers...

The Obama administration has nominated Christopher P. Bertram to be the Transportation Department’s chief financial officer, otherwise known bythe wonderful title of Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs...

Edwin L. Harper
Lynn Jennings
March 10th, 2009

Kay Daly
Acting Director, Financial Management and Assurance
Government Accountability Office
February 18th and 25th, 2009