Sentences with phrase «change agency priorities»

As political appointees, they will want to put Obama's stamp on government and change agency priorities and objectives.

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This may require the agencies to make significant changes to their homepage... We would appreciate you forwarding this message to the appropriate Commissioners today so they are aware of the required website change and they can make this a priority for their public information and IT shops.»

The city's transportation commissioner, Polly Trottenberg (who is also an MTA board member) asked that the agency think more creatively about how to procure the funds, and potentially change the agency's priorities to make the subway repairs of the utmost importance.

For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, a second - term Democrat, it poses the annual opportunity to lobby for the city's priorities, including small and large policy changes and additional funding for city agencies.

«Given recent events and changes in priorities under the Trump administration, as parents, educators and leaders of state agencies we must all work together to protect all the children in our schools,» said State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.

She has said that changing the culture of the agency is a top priority.

Satellites can help deliver such information, and in 10 years» time, global biodiversity monitoring from space could be a reality, but only if ecologists and space agencies agree on a priority list of satellite - based data that is essential for tracking changes in biodiversity.

Health, food security, climate change, sustainable energy, urban systems, digital technologies, and space will be the national priorities; they will be further refined and periodically revised by a newly created strategic research council, chaired by Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault, with input from the French national research agency (CNRS) and five large research - coordinating networks.

Notably, the budget promises «a major reorganization of NIH's Institutes and Centers to help focus resources on the highest priority research and training activities,» including elimination of the Fogarty International Center, which specializes in international research programs, and consolidation of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) within NIH, among other unspecified changes.

The discretionary part of the agency's budget is still subject to OMB approval, so priority setting (for example, in the allocation of staff among activities and divisions) continues to be part of the annual appropriations process.169 Moreover, the President's budget may propose changes to mandatory spending, proposals that OMB has by definition approved.170 At least in the current and previous administrations, OMB has required agencies to submit, as part of their annual budget requests, a description of any effort to take discretionary action that would increase mandatory spending, and has strictly limited its approval of these efforts.171

It's put climate change leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajechange leaders in a variety of key positions, made climate change a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajechange a priority in initiatives in departments and agencies, revitalized the US Global Change Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajeChange Research Program and other interagency efforts, working with other major emitting countries, both industrialized and developing, to build technology cooperation and individual and joint climate policies consistent with avoiding the unmanageable, and is working with Congress — and this is the toughest part really — working with Congress to get comprehensive energy and climate legislation that will put us on a responsible emissions trajectory.

Baseline data from the student agency survey in September pointed to student voice and choice as a high - priority area for growth, so the team at Eskolta is bringing in a coach for their January convening to support schools as they develop new change ideas.

Chapter 3 focuses on federal accountability, Chapter 4 on state accountability, Chapter 5 on accrediting agencies, Chapter 6 on private - sector endeavors (with a particular focus on college rankings and ratings), and Chapter 7 on efforts by students, faculty, and staff to change institutional priorities.

In response to the dramatic changes in our economy and in public policy since last year's annual meeting, CEOs and senior executives of NFCC Agencies came together for a midyear Leadership Summit in March and updated the NFCC agenda by identifying a trio of top strategic priorities.

It» never clear exactly what policies an agency will pursue under a new director - changing circumstances or political realties can mean that even top priorities can fall by the wayside.

To respond to the growing demand for Earth observation data, we will accelerate efforts within the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), which builds on the work of UN specialized agencies and programs, in priority areas, inter alia, climate change and water resources management, by strengthening observation, prediction and data sharing.

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«The Australian Climate Change Science Program's four - year funding of $ 31.6 million, mostly to the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology, duplicates work by those and other agencies and «should be returned to the budget or allocated to priority areas», the commission said in its report.»

The intent for the program's three - person team, all of whom previously worked at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) at Columbia University, is to continue science, outreach, and advocacy work on climate change but without the limitations that come with a federal job, like working on agency priorities, managing a big lab, or avoiding political activities during work.

The agency announced late last month that it was creating a Center on Climate Change and National Security to look at how droughts, rising seas, mass migrations and competition for resources could affect the nation's military and economic priorities.

For example, models of engagement between departmental officials and communities under a lead agency approach are extremely vulnerable to changes in key personnel, and the conflicting priorities arising from multiple changes of government.