OMB to press for new benchmarks

Federal Times: The Office of Management and Budget and the interagency management councils will soon be pressing federal resource managers to develop new benchmarks for managing their agencies, according to senior OMB officials.

“We talk about benchmarking in OMB now regularly,” said Mark Reger, interim controller at OMB, at the CFO-CIO Summit event June 3 in Washington. “If you’re not into the benchmarking exercise, I guarantee you, by the end of July, you will hear about it and in the worst possible way. So start to hear about it as soon as you can.”

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