Budget
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BudgetFY ’16 Budget Proposal Seeks $14 Billion in Cybersecurity
President Obama’s FY ’16 budget proposal, released Feb. 2, allocates $14 billion to support cybersecurity efforts across government, an increase of about $1 billion over the previous year. “No foreign […]
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BudgetSenate Democrats Still Holding Out for Clean DHS Funding Bill
The Senate voted three times this week to move forward with a Department of Homeland Security funding bill–which includes both DHS appropriations and measures to block the president’s 2014 executive […]
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BudgetSenate Republicans Again Fail To Bring DHS Bill Up For Consideration
The Senate on Wednesday again was unable to muster enough votes to invoke cloture to proceed with the Department of Homeland Security’s FY ’15 spending bill, which President Barack Obama […]
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BudgetDHS Funding Bill Fails Cloture Vote In Senate
With Democrats staunchly opposed, the Senate on Tuesday failed to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed with an FY ’15 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]
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BudgetPentagon: Spending Must Surpass Sequester Caps to Support Defense Strategy
The Pentagon requested $585.2 billion in its fiscal year 2016 request–$25 billion more than it is receiving this year and $11 billion more in base budget spending than is allowed […]
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BudgetNavy’s 2016 Spending Request Up, Funds Carrier Overhaul, Fewer Weapons
The Navy wants to spend $35.9 billion to buy ships, aircraft and weapons in fiscal 2016, a request that is about $5 billion more than it sought for the current […]
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BudgetDHS Seeks $41.2 Billion In FY ’16, Includes Funds For New Coast Guard FRC Competition
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday sent Congress a $41.2 billion request for discretionary spending in FY ’16, 4 percent more than the $39.7 billion Congress is prepared […]
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BudgetCSBA: Congress Unlikely To Raise Spending Caps Enough to Accommodate Expected DoD FY ’16 Request
The Pentagon will unveil its fiscal year 2016 budget request on Monday and ask Congress to give about $35 billion more than the sequestration spending caps allow for defense spending–and […]
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BudgetCompensation Commission Recommendations Could Save DoD $4.8 Billion in First Year, $8 Billion Eventually
The Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission released its recommendations Thursday after more than a year of work, surveying well over a million people in the military community about hundreds […]
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BudgetNavy Shifts Sequestration Strategy To Save Ships
The Navy has adopted a different strategy to cope with sequestration if it returns, one aiming to curtail the number of ships that would be cut from the fleet but […]