Budget
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Raj Iyer’s last day as the Army’s chief information officer is Feb. 10, after which he plans to return to industry but continue to support the service’s transformation efforts.
February 06, 2023 -
The Small Business Administration and the Defense Department are expanding an arrangement to foster new companies with national security technology. The latest joint effort is called the Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative.
February 02, 2023 -
For various reasons, defense contractors have quite a bit of Defense Department property in their possession. But DoD can only guesstimate how much it's all worth.
February 01, 2023 -
The Automated Commercial Environment is an old system operated by Customs and Border Protection. It supports the movement and fees collection of ship cargo moving in and out of the United States.
January 31, 2023 -
The federal government provides systems that citizens across our nation rely on daily, especially during some of the most crucial moments in their lives.
January 31, 2023 -
The White House, following up on one of President Joe Biden’s earliest priorities in office, is setting a common standard for science and research policies across the federal government.
January 30, 2023 -
Their aircraft carriers don't have catapults. Their submarines are mostly diesel. Many of their aircraft are made of Soviet-era designs. Their economic growth has ground to a halt.
January 26, 2023 -
The Federal Employees Health Benefits Program has a problem. Its overseer, the Office of Personnel Management, doesn't have a reliable way of know whether plan holders' family members are actually eligible. The Government Accountability Office estimates insurers might be paying out a billion dollars a year on ineligible members.
January 25, 2023 -
A modern CIO manages the company’s information technology strategy and how it supports the enterprise as a whole.
January 23, 2023 -
Committees are forming, hearing schedules still being worked out. You might say the blob that is the 118th Congress still hasn't quite jelled. Yet it has plenty to do.
January 23, 2023 -
Alan Thomas, the former commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration and an operating advisor to Enlightenment Capital, explains how agencies can get out from under a growing mound of technical debt.
January 20, 2023 -
Long controversial, the military vaccine mandate has been killed off by the just-enacted 2023 National Defense Authorization law. So now what?
January 11, 2023 -
Fighter plans and attack planes are known as tactical aircraft. The armed services have a lot of them, mostly old. So old, most of them are past their services lives. Yet they are still in the inventory and the Defense Department wants to spend a hundred billion dollars to refresh the fleet. The Government Accountability Office finds, DoD needs more detailed analysis before proceeding.
January 11, 2023 -
The spending bill also cuts the Biden administration's request for the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology system.
January 02, 2023 -
President Joe Biden has signed a $1.7 trillion bill funding government operations through September 2023, the end of the federal budget year.
December 29, 2022