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Obama signs law requiring report on spending cuts
Tags: Stephen Fuller , Aerospace Industries Association , sequestration , DoD , Congress , House Armed Services Committe , budget , Congressional Research Service , John McCain , Marion Blakey , Jeffrey Zients , Ashton Carter
OMB, DoD remain mum on sequestration's impact on specific programs
Agencies should not change their spending plans for this year or next, but need to start assessing which programs would be impacted by automatic sequestration cuts if Congress doesn't cancel them, OMB acting Director Jeff Zients told Congress Wednesday.
Tags: Congress , OMB , budget , sequestration , Jeffrey Zients , Ashton Carter , House Armed Services Committee , Buck McKeon , Jared Serbu , DoD
Civilian workforce faces brutal consequences under sequestration
Civilian agency payrolls would be most vulnerable under automatic budget cuts set to kick in on Jan. 2. A new AIA and George Mason University study claims 229,000 non-defense federal jobs would be eliminated.
Tags: Congress , sequestration , workforce , pay and benefits , Marion Blakey , Aerospace Industries Association , Stephen Fuller , George Mason University , Jeanne Shaheen , Kelly Ayotte , Gordon Adams , Jared Serbu
Analysis: DoD needs to slice budget with or without sequestration
Benjamin Friedman, a CATO Institute research fellow, said sequestration prevents intelligent spending cuts, but that doesn't necessarily mean DoD lacks room to make smarter ones.
Tags: sequestration , budget , DoD , best practices , Benjamin Friedman , Keith BieryGolick , Cato Institute , Congress , In Depth
OMB directs agencies to cut 5 percent from 2014 budgets
In two memoranda released late Friday, the Office of Management and Budget told agency heads they must cut 5 percent from their 2014 budgets and use evidence-based evaluations.
Tags: FY 2014 budget , budget cuts , sequestration , OMB , Jeffrey Zients , agency budget , Gillian Brockell
House panel declines to approve hike in DoD's health insurance fees
House military personnel subcommittee asserts retirees have already paid for their health care via their military service, omits DoD proposal to hike TRICARE fees.
Tags: DoD , DoD budget , Congress , Buck McKeon , House Armed Services Committee , Military Officers Association of America , TRICARE , pay and benefits , Kathy Beasley , Jared Serbu
Budget glass is more than half full for Navy, Marine Corps
Navy and Marine Corps officials are upbeat about how they'll fare under the current round of budget cuts. Navy Department officials said the strategy DoD developed following the passage of the Budget Control Act aligns perfectly with the capabilities of the maritime services.
Tags: DoD , Navy , Marine Corps , budget , sequestration , Robert Work , Buck McKeon , Ray Mabus
Congress returns to packed budget agenda, tight deadlines
Congress returns to session this week with a few short months to reach a budget resolution for the new fiscal year starting Oct. 1 and agree on how to avoid the automatic spending cuts of $1.2 trillion over the next decade that will be triggered Jan. 2, 2013, under the Budget Control Act debt limit deal. But don't expect much to get accomplished before the election, say budget experts.
Tags: Steve Bell , Bipartisan Policy Center , Julie Tagen , NARFE , Beth Moten , AFGE , Colleen Kelley , NTEU , pay and benefits , budget , Congress , sequestration , workforce , retirement , Robert Tobias , American University
Sequestration may hit defense industry harder than troops
Sequestration would kill hundreds of thousands of defense industry jobs, the Pentagon warns. Frank Kendall told senators during his nomination hearing to be the DoD acquisition chief that personnel accounts would be shielded so lower-tiered contractors would feel the brunt of cuts.
Tags: DoD , Congress , John McCain , Carl Levin , industry , sequestration , defense industrial base , Frank Kendall , Heidi Shyu , Jared Serbu
SES mobility not 'musical chairs'
Host Mike Causey will talk career mobility with
Carol Bonosaro, president of the Senior
Executives Service. Federal Times Senior Writers
Stephen Losey and Sean Reilly will talk about
how pending legislation in Congress will affect
your pay and benefits.
March 14, 2012
Tags: pay and benefits , Senior Executives Service , Carol Bonasaro , Federal Times , Sean Reilly , Stephen Losey , retirement , budget battle , sequestration , USPS , pay freeze , Mike Causey , Your Turn with Mike Causey , buyouts , downsizing
