The Navy awards Lockheed Martin a $53.5 million contract. The contract provides funding for post-termination expenses for a cancelled Navy helicopter development contract with Lockheed Martin. The post termination expenses include the physical inventory of contractor acquired property, proposal preparation, security and disposition of contract inventory among other things.
The U.S. government risks wasting billions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan because of poor planning. A congressional panel monitoring reconstruction efforts says the federal government has not done enough to make sure the host countries can sustain U.S. funded projects. Troops are scheduled to start leaving Afghanistan in July and be totally out of Iraq by the end of the year.
IT program manager is now a real position in the government. The Office of Personnel Management revised part of the 2210 job series for information technology to include the new job title. OPM’s deputy associate director Angela Bailey sent a memo to agency human resource officers May 3 detailing the new part of the job series.
Budget negotiations are taking a toll on the State Department. Its 2011 budget of $48 billion is $8.4 billion less than President Obama requested. Jake Sullivan, director of policy planning says the squeeze has already forced the agency to make a lot of hard choices. Federal Times reports the House Appropriations Committee plans to slice $11 billion from the Department’s 2012 request.
Copyright
© 2024 Federal News Network. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.
