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Senate confirms Higginbottom as OMB deputy director
The final vote was 64-36 for the former Obama policy director.
Tags: Heather Higginbottom , OMB , budget , people , management , Jacob Lew , Barack Obama , Congress
DoD reassures Congress it is fixing contingency contracting
Senior defense leaders told Congress they've already made huge steps toward implementing the recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Contracting. Former members of the panel say DoD still has a lot of work to do.
Tags: DoD , Congress , Commission on Wartime Contracting , Dov Zakheim , Katherine Schinasi , Claire McCaskill , Frank Kendall , Brooks Bash , acqusition , management , Jared Serbu , Iraq , Afghanistan
House, Senate cyber plans have much in common
James Lewis of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says the strategies of the chambers differ but the policies are actually similar.
Tags: James Lewis , Center for Strategic and International Studies , cybersecurity , technology , In Depth , Congress , House ,
Senate committee passes bills on improper payments, whistleblower protections
The new bill, passed in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, would require more consistent reporting of improper payments by federal agencies.
Tags: budget , Congress , Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2011 , Tom Carper , Joe Lieberman , whistleblower protection , employee rotations , workforce , SES , management
Proposed law creates more checks for feds' credit card purchases
Paul Singer, investigative editor at Roll Call, discusses the provisions of the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act.
Tags: Paul Singer , Roll Call , credit card , charge card abuse , In Depth , oversight , Congress , House , Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act
Sens. McCain, McCaskill ask DoD to review ANC contracts
Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) have asked the Defense Department to review its ANC contracts and to provide detailed reports on all contracts more than $20 million that went to small businesses in the last five years.
Tags: DoD , DoD Report , Claire McCaskill , John McCain , Alaska Native Corporations , contracting , acquisition , Congress , Federal Drive
Va. may lead way toward constitutional amendment
Virginia may lead the way for a constitutional amendment aimed at overturning federal laws.
Tags: Bill Howell , Hank Silverberg , U.S. Constitution , Constitutional amendment , Congress , House , Gary Emerling
F-22 R.I.P.
The Senate voted to terminate further production of the Air Force's topline F-22 fighter jets Tuesday, giving President Barack Obama a major spending victory and siding with the Pentagon's desire for smaller jets better suited to 21st century wars. F-22 supporters complained the action would be a blow to long-term national defense - and cost thousands of jobs in the middle of the recession.
Tags: technology , Pentagon , Air Force , Obama , F-22
Drug Cartels getting away
Mexican drug cartels are infiltrating federal law enforcement agencies along the southwest border and those charged with weeding them out say they don't have the money to do it. According to the Associated Press, James Tomsheck, assistant commissioner with U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Internal Affairs, told a Senate homeland security subcommittee in Washington that only about one in 10 of the new hires for agency jobs are given polygraph tests, and of those, 60 percent are deemed unsuitable for employment.
Tags: technology , Pentagon and Beyond , U.S. Customs , Border Protection's Office of Internal Affairs ,
Presidential Helicopter
The Associated Press is reporting that an internal Navy document shows new plans to replace the president's fleet of helicopters will cost taxpayers more and take years longer to deliver than a recently scrapped contract. Rep. Maurice Hinchey said the Pentagon's plan to abandon aircraft built by Lockheed Martin Corp. and buy a new fleet with similar capabilities at a cost of up to $22 billion for delivery as late as in 2024 is "beyond illogical." He represents the district where the helicopters are made. The funding issue likely will boil over next week when House and Senate lawmakers meet to resolve differences over their respective defense spending bills.
Tags: technology , Pentagon , President , Maurice Hinchey , Lockheed , Navy
