Budget

U.S. Forces Korea has banned several non-uniformed personnel from its bases for the next two years for violating the command’s health protection orders.

Deltek’s Kevin Plexico continued his fiscal 2021 state, local and education IT forecast with a focus on Texas and New York, plus the crucial role federal funds play in state and local IT budgets.

If a virus can kill Americans and wreck the economy more easily than a foreign enemy, is the United States approaching the idea of national defense the right way in the first place?

The Air Force is worried about its aerospace and space business partners.

The USPS Office of Inspector General surveyed the postal services of six nations to see how they deal with rural networks.

The Coast Guard says coronavirus is showing the cracks in the service’s IT infrastructure.

Congress, having gutted out the biggest stimulus bill ever, is busier than ever.

The president has signed the $2 trillion stimulus and emergency supplemental appropriations package into law. It will have implications for federal employees and their agencies, retirees and contractors.

President Donald Trump signed to supplemental spending bills into law over the last two weeks giving agencies billions of dollars in extra funding to help fight the coronavirus.

Federal agencies have requested an additional $45.8 billion in funding for 2020 alone, which the White House said is necessary for its governmentwide response to the coronavirus. Extra telework support is at the top of the list.

It’s not easy accounting for each of the $5.1 trillion it takes to operate the government every year. But someones got to do it.

How do you measure the value of spending on prevention? That’s a recurring challenge for federal agencies sensitive to the dangers of cybersecurity breaches.

Unstoppable budget trends are, more and more, starving the government of the funds it needs to invest in itself. An IBM study examined if private capital could be the solution.

Washington Technology Editor in Chief Nick Wakeman joined host Mark Amtower on this week’s Amtower Off Center, for a wide-ranging discussion of the mergers and acquisition climate, the popularity of “best in class” contracts, and the budget outlook for the rest of this year.