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The Defense Department is asking Congress for a $773 billion budget in 2023, which it says is crucial to continuing its concept of “integrated deterrence” — using weapons in multiple domains to project power — as it continues to identify China as the main threat to the United States.
The great flywheel of appropriations gets a big shove today with release of the administration's 2023 budget request, six months before fiscal 2023 actually starts.
House Republican lawmakers are concerned that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s lagging re-entry plans will delay results on discrimination charges.
The Legacy IT Reduction Act of 2022 aims to bring some transparency to this problem agencies have in knowing how many legacy IT systems they have and their plans to modernize.
Presidents make sure their and their party's policies are carried out in large measure by whom they appoint. Each time, though, it seems like the confirmation process goes slower and slower.
The procurement environment is a little confusing at the moment. Appropriations came through with only a half a year to obligate them. The 2023 budget schedule is foggy. And inflation overlays the buying power of every dollar.
A federal agency says it's running out of money to cover medical bills for COVID tests and treatments for uninsured people and will stop taking claims at midnight Tuesday
Burn pits, they're the agent orange of the most recent generation of veterans. Veterans who were exposed to the open junk incinerators in Iraq and Afghanistan have long complained of resulting health maladies. President Joe Biden mentioned it in his state of the union speech. Some VA benefits have begun to trickle out.
The House of Representatives is taking what amounts to a spring break, but the Senate is in town working on legislation to deal with China and closing in on the Supreme Court nomination.
In today's Federal Newscast, lawmakers want the National Guard Inspector General to investigate bias in the Maryland National Guard.
Omnibus bill adds more than $1 billion in facility upkeep funding, an area DoD has knowingly neglected in its budgets for at least a decade.
The IRS expects new hiring authority will allow it to bring new employees onboard within 40 to 45 days, rather than several months, to deal with a major backlog of tax returns and correspondence.
The Capitol and its environs have been mostly closed to visitors since - well, you know. Tourists, Girl Scout troops, and Lions Club presidents aren't the only ones who want the Capitol opened back up, so do lobbyists. They're circulating an open letter trying to nudge members to get back to normal.
The latest intel authorization bill carries implications for security clearance reform, commercial geospatial-intelligence imagery efforts and what kind of work intelligence analysts can consider after leaving the U.S. government.