appropriations

For contractors, the next few months are all about numbers.

It is that most magical time of the year. Appropriations arriving six months late for the current fiscal year and Congress futzing over next year’s budget.

Contracting

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon

Defense Deputy Secretary Hicks urges Congress to pass 2024 NDAA

Defense News

Congress recesses with its federal budget still under construction

Congress

Sequestration, sequestration, se — Wait, don’t summon the S-word!

Federal Report

FILE - In this July 28, 2014, file photo, lightning strikes over Lake Mead near Hoover Dam that impounds Colorado River water at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Arizona. The sweeping $1 trillion infrastructure bill approved by the Senate this week includes funding for Western water projects that farmers, water providers and environmentalists say are badly needed across the parched region. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Can a 10-year federal infrastructure plan really sustain itself for 10 years

Congress

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Whistle blower or whistleblower concept as a symbol of a secret informer agent posing as an employee with his cast shadow of a whistle as a metaphor for inside infoermation on misconduct in a 3D illustration style.

Intelligence community whistleblowers finally get a little help, from Congress

Intelligence Community

Sunlight shines on the U.S. Capitol Dome in Washington, Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Congress is on recess this week, as the February budget deadline looms

Congress

Greg Godbout, Chief Growth Officer at Fearless

The federal spending calendar is getting decidedly lopsided

Contracting

In some ways you have to pity Congress, trying to spend trillions it doesn’t have

Congress

House passes CR to keep govt open until Dec. 20, guarantee military pay raise

Congress

Is there a shutdown in your future?

Federal Report

With the 2-year budget deal signed into law, what’s next for federal employees?

The 2019 Bipartisan Budget Act sets defense and non-defense spending limits for the next two years, but much of the real work remains when Congress returns…

Budget

Senators on Trump Space Force plan: Not so fast

The Trump administration’s proposal for creating a Space Force as a new military service encountered bipartisan skepticism in the Senate

Defense

Civilian agencies spending less than 2019 appropriations, unlike DoD

Federal Drive

Evidence is mounting that civilian agencies are spending less than what they received in appropriations for fiscal 2019.