Budget
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The fiscal 2023 omnibus includes several technology-related policy provisions that agencies should pay close attention to over the next year.
December 22, 2022 -
The 2023 Financial Service and General Government section of the Omnibus bill allocates $50 million for the Technology Modernization Fund, well below the $300 million the White House requested.
December 20, 2022 -
Congress will likely have to fund the government for one week to avoid a partial government shutdown. That's according to Sen. Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, who said Monday there are “positive and productive" conversations happening about a longer-term spending package. Congress faces a midnight Friday deadline to fund the government and prevent a partial stoppage. A vote to extend that deadline by one week gives negotiators more time, but also pushes back the deadline to Dec. 23, closer to the holidays. Lawmakers are hoping to attach an array of other priorities to the final spending bill, including $37 billion in Ukraine aid.
December 12, 2022 -
The Social Security Administration wants to hire 4,000 new employees and drastically reduce processing times during 2023, but agency officials say they can't get there without full-year funding from Congress.
December 09, 2022 -
Gwendolyn Sykes has operated as a CFO at large federal agencies and in two major universities. At the moment. She's the CFO of the Secret Service, and also a new fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration.
November 03, 2022 -
No one particularly likes Defense Department's PPBE process. It’s rigid, inflexible, and very slow. But it's been encoded into the DNA of the Defense bureaucracy for more than 60 years. Over the next year, two separate groups of experts will try to figure out how to fix the system.
November 03, 2022 -
The Defense Department is working on new initiatives to reduce the long-term ownership costs of its major platforms. While those systems are expensive up-front, sustainment expenses make up about 70% of the average weapons system’s total lifecycle cost.
November 01, 2022 -
The federal chief information security officer says the zero trust strategy is helping cyber leaders make the case for specific investments in the 2024 budget.
October 19, 2022 -
The bill funds the federal government through Dec. 16 and gives Congress more time to work out a comprehensive spending package for the rest of fiscal 2023.
September 30, 2022 -
Congress is moving quickly to avoid a government shutdown
September 29, 2022 -
Barely a month after the IRS got $80 billion to rebuild its workforce and upgrade its legacy IT, House Republican leaders are making repealing this funding their top legislative priority ahead of this November's elections.
September 23, 2022 -
The continuing resolution that Congress is debating is sort of like COVID. You know it's coming, but how bad will it be? CRs can go for days or they can go for months. Last year's went nearly halfway through the fiscal year. To find out how this one is shaping up, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked with Loren Duggan, Bloomberg Government deputy news director.
September 19, 2022 -
A former Public Buildings Service commissioner said aligning clean energy and other sustainability goals with agency missions is central to achieving low carbon benchmarks.
August 25, 2022 -
The upcoming Sept. 30 deadline will bring another continuing resolution. And CRs don't have to spoil agency planning.
August 24, 2022 -
The Economic Development Administration, part of the Commerce Department, awarded the grants under a program called the good jobs challenge.
August 17, 2022