Budget
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More spending does not necessarily equal better security. As they work to secure our nation's digital infrastructure better, federal organizations must not waste billions of taxpayer dollars on reactive cybersecurity solutions that, in the private sector, have left many organizations with less security and more complex tools to manage.
March 29, 2022 -
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.
March 28, 2022 -
The Army will continue to decrease its active duty force to 473,000.
March 28, 2022 -
The Biden administration is planning to move the FBI’s headquarters out of the District of Columbia and build a new campus in suburban Virginia or Maryland.
March 28, 2022 -
The budget request outlines a "strategic shift" in federal cybersecurity efforts after incidents like SolarWinds and Log4j.
March 28, 2022 -
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.
March 28, 2022 -
The administration is asking Congress for $1.58 trillion for defense and non-defense discretionary accounts, $70 billion more than fiscal 2022 enacted appropriations.
March 28, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: Lawmakers call for more money in the defense budget. An effort is underway to reform and modernize the State Department. And pregnant Marines get a break on clothing
March 24, 2022 -
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.
March 22, 2022 -
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
March 22, 2022 -
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.
March 21, 2022 -
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.
March 21, 2022 -
DoD's new JADC2 implementation plan is still classified, but signs of it will start to appear in the forthcoming 2023 budget proposal.
March 21, 2022 -
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.
March 18, 2022 -
Despite a $500 million request from the White House and the House initially appropriating $50 million for fiscal 2022, lawmakers decided not to add any new funding to the Technology Modernization Fund.
March 14, 2022