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Pentagon moving to freeze hiring, delay contracts
Tags: budget , Leon Panetta , hiring freeze , furloughs
September Defense spending spree takes on new urgency
The Office of Management and Budget estimates that $83.5 billion in previous years' Department of Defense funds will remain unobligated on Sept. 30, the end of fiscal 2012, reports Kevin Brancato and Robert Levinson of Bloomberg Government.
Tags: OMB , DoD , Kevin Brancato , Bloomberg Government , Federal Drive , budget ,
13 defense executives bemoan uncertainty of cuts
Defense industry executives criticize the impending sequestration, which they say would lead to the loss of more than 1 million defense-related jobs.
Tags: John McCain , Joe Lieberman , DoD , industry , Northrop Grumman , Boeing , Congress , Senate
Lockheed, BAE say they won't issue layoff notices if sequestration takes effect
Lockheed Martin will not issue layoff notices — known as Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notices — if the automatic, across-the-board cuts known as sequestration take effect Jan. 2.
Tags: Lockheed Martin , budget , layoff , WARN , contractor
What could possibly go wrong?
Having set up the sequestration system that will trigger draconian automatic spending cuts, both political parties now say it shouldn't happen, that furloughs would have a catastrophic impact on the economy, national defense, maybe even the weather So, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey wants t know: What does it look like from where you stand -- and work.
Tags: Mike Causey , pay and benefits , workforce , furloughs
Sequestration, furloughs, federal pay raise, and more
Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, and Federal Times reporter Stephen Losey will discuss sequestration and other issues affecting federal workers.
February 13, 2013
Tags: pay and benefits , furlough , Federal Workers , contractors , Colleen Kelley , NTEU , Federal Times , Stephen Losey , federal pay raise , budget cuts , OMB , AFGE , Your Turn , Mike Causey
OMB delaying budget passback guidance, creating uncertainty
The White House typically gives agencies both funding and policy updates for the upcoming budget request by Thanksgiving. This year OMB decided to hold off on passback guidance because of the current fiscal negotiations with Congress. Several senior agency officials said this lag will compress the timeline to respond to the information and require them to prepare for something that may never happen.
Tags: management , budget , technology , OMB , Jim Capretta , Ethics and Public Policy Center , Dan Tangherlini , GSA , Jason Miller
OMB offers agencies sequestration guidance as deadline looms
The Obama administration offered agencies new guidance on sequestration, telling agency leaders and federal-employee unions that sequestration won't have an immediate impact on the federal workforce or government operations even if the automatic budget cuts go into effect Jan. 2.
Tags: federal unions , OMB , OPM , John Berry , Danny Werfel , Jack Moore
Cliff poses tiny dollar gap, wide political ravine
Tags: John Boehner , Barack Obama , fiscal cliff , Congress , House , budget , Robert Bixby , Concord Coalition , Plan B
House OKs federal pension hike as part of fiscal-cliff alternative
The House approved a bill Thursday requiring federal employees to contribute more toward their retirement as part of a broader deal to avert the the so-called fiscal cliff. The 2012 Spending Reduction Act is nearly identical to a measure passed by the House last spring.
Tags: fiscal cliff , pay and benefits , retirement , budget , FERS , Jack
