Budget
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BudgetFormer Hill Staffers Predict Turmoil in FY ’17 Budget Cycle
Despite a Bipartisan Budget Agreement that was supposed to smooth the appropriations process this year, former Hill staffers on Thursday said the path to the fiscal 2017 budget will be […]
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BudgetGD Electric Boat Chosen To Take Lead Role for Ohio Replacement Sub
The Navy has named General Dynamics [GD] Electric Boat the prime contractor for the Ohio replacement submarine, while Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding will take a secondary role […]
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BudgetPentagon May Need Change in Law to Give Additional Decision Making Authorities to Temporary IT Employees
Last year’s defense authorization bill contained new authorities that allowed the Defense Department to hire information technology talent for a short term basis, but lawmakers may need to expand that […]
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Air ForceAir Force Secretary Asks Congress to Extend Deterrence Fund to B-21, GBSD
If the Navy is permitted to fund its ballistic missile submarine through a special fund, lawmakers should consider a similar mechanism for modernizing the Air Force’s legs of the nuclear […]
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BudgetHouse GOP’s FY ’17 Budget Proposal Contains No Additional Defense Funding
House Republicans on Tuesday introduced its fiscal year 2017 budget proposal, which provides $551 billion in base funding for defense and $74 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO). Those numbers […]
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BudgetThornberry’s Proposed Acquisition Reform Bill Centers Around Modular, Open Architecture Systems
Increasing the number of weapon systems with an open architecture backbone has long been a goal of the Defense Department, but House Armed Services Committee Chairman (HASC) Mac Thornberry’s (R-Texas) […]
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BudgetAs Lawmakers Tackle Defense Reform, Experts Suggest Changes of Their Own
A day before House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) is set to roll out his second defense reform proposal, experts from the Center for Strategic and International Studies […]
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BudgetIf Not Personnel, Direct Spending To Border Security Technology, CBP Official Says
If Congress were to trim the FY ’17 budget request for hiring Border Patrol agents then there are technology investments the agency could make use of for border security, a […]
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Air ForcePentagon Accountants Say Service Wish Lists Are Unhelpful Without Defense Budget Increase
The annual tradition of the military services budgeting within their allocated allowances only for the service chiefs to submit “wish lists” to Congress of items they would like to spend […]
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Budget
HAC-HS Democrat Suggests Increasing Coast Guard’s FY ’17 Acquisition Budget
House appropriators will “address” a shortfall in the Coast Guard’s budget request for its acquisition account in FY ’17, a Democrat on the committee said on Thursday. Rep. David Price […]