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House bill protects homeland security budget
Tags: DHS , DoD , House , Congress , Harold Rogers
Latest on sequestration and military budgets
On this week's edition of Pentagon Solutions, host Francis Rose looks at the latest information on furloughs at the Defense Department as well as the 2014 budgets for the Army and Air Force.
Tags: Pentagon Solutions , Francis Rose , Chuck Hagel , sequestration , furloughs , Katherine Hammack , Kathleen Ferguson , Army , Air Force ,
DoD wants to know real costs of IT business systems
Beth McGrath, the Defense Department's deputy chief management officer, issued a memo in April creating a new integrated business framework. The goal of the framework is to tie costs to performance and strategy.
Tags: management , technology , DoD , Beth McGrath , Excellence in Government , Jason Miller
House passes bill to prioritize US debt payments
Tags: debt ceiling , House , Congress ,
DoD's budget reprogramming won't help with sequestration
Pentagon says it will use its limited budget flexibility to compensate for unexpected war costs, not to blunt sequestration. Services continue to warn Congress about how budget cuts are impacting readiness.
Tags: DoD , Congress , sequestration , Ashton Carter , Michael Donley , Ray Odierno , Jared Serbu , Senate Appropriations Committee , House Appropriations Committee ,
Sequestration Tracker: Guide to agency furloughs
In the weeks leading up to March 1, agencies across government have painted increasingly dire pictures of life under sequestration. Along with hiring freezes, spending reductions, and curtailed travel and training, many agencies are planning for furloughs. With Federal News Radio's Sequestration Tracker, find out how agencies have said they'll slash their budgets to comply with the $85 billion in across-the-board cuts.
Tags: sequestration , furloughs
Agency success breeds new real property disposal goals
OMB raised the savings or cost avoidance goal by $500 million by the end of 2012. Since March, agencies got rid of 1,400 excess or underutilized properties. But the government added 1,500 new ones to the list.
Tags: management , OMB , Danny Werfel , federal real property , David Baxa , Vista Technology Services , civilian BRAC , Jason Miller
Obama wants more certainty on Syrian chemical arms
Tags: Barack Obama , debt ceiling , deficit ,
Obama: Cuts mean US could lose years of research
Tags: technology , sequestration , National Science Foundation , Barack Obama
Lawmakers take on legislative process in fight against duplicative programs
Two senators from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee want to change Senate rules in an attempt to make sure new federal programs or initiatives in proposed legislation don't overlap with existing efforts. Earlier this month, two House members introduced a measure that would require House committees of jurisdiction to hold oversight hearings on an annual report from the Government Accountability Office detailing government duplication.
Tags: oversight , Congress , House , Senate , Tom Coburn , Gary Peters , Cory Gardner , duplication , GAO , Jack Moore
