OMB Sharpens Guidance for Improving Programs and Curbing Improper Payments

In a pair of memos to agency heads this week, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney laid out how his office will monitor progress toward formalizing the improvement of program management and getting a better handle on long-standing efforts to avoid government payments to undeserving parties. The first memo, dated June 25, follows through on the 2016 Program Management Improvement Accountability Act, which requires the appointment of program management improvement officers and created a new interagency council to enhance program and project management techniques.