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The Senate is considering a series of new bills that would alter the Veterans Affairs Department's current Choice program, which lets veterans find a private care provider rather than a VA doctor. VA leaders and Congress both say the department's current program is not working.
Lt. Gen. John Murray, deputy chief of staff for the U.S. Army, said the service is carefully weighing the recommendations made by the National Commission on the Future of the Army.
The Government Accountability Office and the Congressional Budget Office defended their increased budget requests to Congress, emphasizing the amount of returns on the investment each agency brings back to the government.
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson defended his agency's $40.6 billion fiscal 2017 budget, telling a congressional committee that cybersecurity funding would help hiring efforts.
The 2017 Pentagon budget request looks a lot like the 2016 one, maybe a little more so. The well-known and costly platforms are all in there, from the F-35 to modernizing the nuclear arsenal. Law professor Charles Tiefer shares his thoughts on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about some of the big drivers of waste.
The IRS has issued a notice to employers on how to retroactively apply federal transit benefits this current tax filing season.
The Office of Management and Budget is developing an IT modernization policy for civilian agencies that would require them to do a majority of the up-front planning to prepare for the funding should Congress approve the initiative.
A new rule stemming from the 2015 Defense authorization act would disallow reimbursing contractors for costs when they're called into Congress for investigations. This is not just for DoD agencies. Alan Chvotkin, executive vice president of the Professional Services Council, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on this rule and its likely impact.
The Defense Department builds economic assumptions and cost savings into its budget, but when those savings are too optimistic it hurts critical programs.
The Government Accountability Office ruled the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s voluntary BYOD program doesn’t violate any laws.
When President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2017, his administration will bring new leadership to every federal agency — a fraction of the nearly 4,000 political hires he'll make in the Oval Office. So who's coming? Who's going? Federal News Radio has compiled an at-a-glance "cheat sheet" of key executive hires as they happen.
Defense companies are expected to increase hiring for the first time in five years, but that could create problems for the Defense Department's recruiting initiatives.
When both the House and Senate appropriations committee chairmen decided to not hold hearings on the President's 2017 budget request, you knew the year was off to a rough start. Now a battle royale is looking in the possible nomination of a new Supreme Court justice. For how this all might play out, Federal Drive with Tom Temin talks to David Hawkings, senior editor of CQ Roll Call.
President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2017 budget proposal gives the Defense Department $524 billion, plus another $59 billion for overseas contingency operations.