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NOAA plans for 4 furlough days, begins talking to unions

Employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will be furloughed four days starting in July, acting Administrator Kathryn Sullivan wrote in an email to staff Monday.

Tags: NOAA , NWS , Commerce Department , furlough , sequestration , budget , Ciaran Clayton , Michael OConnell , Kathryn Sullivan

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Smithsonian to close galleries due to budget cuts

Tags: Smithsonian , Wayne Clough , budget , sequestration , National Archives

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2014 budget takes center stage on Capitol Hill

With the release of the White House's 2014 budget proposal last week, budget season on Capitol Hill is in full swing. But while Congress will be debating the merits of the President's budget plan via a flurry of congressional hearings this week, the permanent director's chair at the Office of Management and Budget remains vacant.

Tags: budget , Sylvia Burwell , OMB , Jack Moore , House Appropriations Committee , Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee

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DoD's 2014 budget: Fewer civilians, higher retiree health fees

The Defense Department's 2014 budget proposal reduces the size of the civilian workforce slightly, increases TRICARE premiums, and requests another round of base closures. It also calls for a slight raise for both civilian employees and uniformed servicemembers. The budget significantly exceeds the Defense spending caps in current law.

Tags: DoD , budget , 2014 budget , pay raise , TRICARE , retirement

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White House pushes $2B increase in IT spending

The White House asked Congress for a $2 billion increase in federal technology funding for fiscal 2014. Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel said there is broad recognition that the time to invest in IT is now because of the long-term savings and benefits it can bring.

Tags: technology , budget , 2014 budget , OMB , White House , IT spending , Steven VanRoekel , Jason Miller

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Hagel: Job not to cut heart out of Pentagon

Tags: Chuck Hagel , Martin Dempsey , DoD , budget , Congress

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Officials: Pentagon looks to cut furlough days

Defense Department officials said Thursday they were considering reducing the number of furlough days for their civilian employees from 14 to seven.

Tags: DoD , budget , sequestration , furlough

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Feds in Survivor Island mode

President Barack Obama wants to make federal service cool again. But his budget proposals, which would reduce future retirement benefits and force feds to pay more for them, has a lot of current civil servants hot under the collar, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

Tags: Mike Causey , Federal Report , pay and benefits , workforce , budget , 2014 budget , COLA , retirement

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President's 2014 budget includes pay increase, but retirement changes loom large

Federal employees would see a slight pay bump next year under President Barack Obama's proposed budget for 2014. But at the same time, the White House budget outline proposes sweeping changes to federal employees' retirement benefits, including reductions to annual cost-of-living increases for retirees.

Tags: budget , 2014 budget , pay and benefits , pay , Barack Obama , retirement , COLA

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Budget, sequestration and jobs

On this week's Capital Impact show, Bloomberg Government analysts discuss the latest jobs report and and how sequestration is affecting the economy of Fairfax County Virginia.
April 11, 2013

Tags: acquisition , budget , jobs report , Nela Richardson , Allen Scott , fairfax county , contracting , Lockheed Martin , Booz Allen Hamilton , Northrup Grumman , SAIC , sequestration , Lorraine Woellert , Bloomberg Government , Capital Impact

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