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Executive Order 13048

Improving Administrative Management in the Executive Branch

This executive order revokes three prior management-improvement orders and establishes a new Interagency Council on Administrative Management to coordinate cross-cutting administrative reforms across 26 federal agencies and related councils. The Council is charged with planning, promoting, and recommending improvements in government operations, supporting existing management councils, and disseminating best practices.

Federal Register Open PDF 62 FR 32467

Impact dates

  1. Agency heads advise Chair of membership selections

  2. At-large member appointments for specific terms not exceeding 2 years

Key directives

  • Establish Interagency Council on Administrative Management with OMB Deputy Director for Management as Chair
  • Designate one senior administrative management official from each of 26 specified agencies
  • Include representatives from CFO Council, CIO Council, Federal Procurement Council, Interagency Advisory Group of Federal Personnel Directors, and Small Agency Council
  • Council to plan, promote, and recommend improvements in government administration and operations
  • Council to explore more effective use of government resources
  • Council to support activities of existing management councils
  • Council to identify and disseminate successful administrative management practices
  • Chair may appoint at-large federal employees for terms not exceeding 2 years
  • Revoke EO 12816, EO 12552, and EO 12637

Who is ordered

Timeline

Immediate

  • Council established upon signing
  • EO 12816, 12552, and 12637 revoked

Near term (90d)

  • Agency heads to designate senior administrative management officials to Council
  • Chair to appoint at-large members and invite SSA participation

Long term

  • Ongoing coordination of governmentwide administrative management policies
  • Dissemination of quality management practices across agencies

Risks & tensions

  • Council is advisory/coordinatory with no direct implementation authority—effectiveness depends on OMB Chair leverage and agency cooperation
  • Overlapping membership with existing councils (PMC, CFO, CIO) risks redundancy or turf conflicts; text acknowledges some PCMI functions already absorbed by these bodies
  • No funding or staffing provisions specified; agency heads provide support only 'to the extent permitted by law'
  • Explicit judicial review bar (Sec. 4) means no enforceable rights for external parties
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