OMB’s Tim Young announces his departure, but to where?

OMB's Tim Young

We are hearing that OMB’s Tim Young has announced that his last day at the Office of Management and Budget will be Friday, Nov. 21. The unanswered question: Where is he going?

Young has been at OMB for some seven years and is credited with reorganizing OMB’s e-government and information technology. In December, Young was promoted to be deputy director. At the same time, OMB shifted the deputy director post to a career position as part of an over all reorganization of OMB’s IT management. Then, earlier this year, he was replaced by Michael Howell, who became the senior career IT executive.

It has been widely known that Young was looking for a private sector post and friends report that he has been pondering several good offers. The question at this point is… which one did he choose.

DorobekInsider’s most read items for the week

The most read DorobekInsider items for the past 7-days

1. Navy out with one of the first Web 2.0 policy memos
2. Hear the Navy CIO talk about the Navy’s Web 2.0 policy
3. The Federal News Radio Book Club: The Speed of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey
4. Tech guru Genachowski named to Obama transition team
5. The run of the geeks — their term, not mine
6. Who might be the government’s CIO… er, CTO
   
7. Get out there and vote today… and let people know how it goes
8. Get ready — change is coming to Washington
9. More on the Federal News Radio Book club with FCW
   
10. Google’s Schmidt as the Obama administration’s CTO
    
11. Election night — what to watch
12. Time names intel community’s A-Space one of the best innovations of 2008 [Federal News Radio’s Max Cacus has a report on A-Space this past week.]
13. EPA’s national dialogue — a good start at government transparency
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16. The 10.22 Marty Wagner update… with good news
    
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Some of CJD’s favorite interviews from Federal News Radio’s Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris

• The Navy CIO… You can hear Robert Carey, the Department of the Navy’s CIO, talk about the Web 2.0 guidance that he put out — the first in the government.
• GAO talking transition… GAO has a really good Web offering recommendations and data for the transition. You can find that at gao.gov/transition_2009. And we spoke to Gene Dodaro is Acting Comptroller General.
• What’s next for GSA… We spoke to Frank Pugliese, who was the commissioner of GSA’s Federal Supply Service.

And I’m going to keep reminding you about the Federal News Radio Book Club — our first book is up in just a few weeks — The Speed of Trust. Get the details here and here for how we’re working with FCW. Come join us. Federal News Radio’s Internet Editor Dorothy Ramienski has been reading the book and comes in every day with words of wisdom for us. So… Join us and share your wisdom… November 19 is coming up.