Budget

• End of the year coming, where should the rest of the money go?

  Spending at the end of the year provides the chance to invest in innovation according to the self-styled government and industry connector company Dcode.

• Last month of the fiscal year, what does Congress have planned?

  Not much got done in Congress over the last two weeks, and tomorrow is the first day of the last month of the fiscal year.

• Official word: The Hatch Act does not apply to Trump and Pence

  In today's Federal Newscast: Special Counsel Henry Kerner said the Hatch Act does not apply to Trump and Pence, the Post Office lost $1 billion dollars last month and a missing Fort Hood soldier is found dead.

• Don’t mess with the US Mail!

  For the past few weeks pundits, columnists and commentators, some of whom wouldn’t know a letter carrier from a clerk or mail handler, have been discovering and dissecting the U.S. Postal Service.

• USPS seeks rate hike on commercial packages amid spike in deliveries

  After months of President Trump calling on the Postal Service to increase prices for commercial customers, the agency has agreed to seek rate hikes.

• Education pushes back, OPM opens up during FITARA hearing

  A panel of former federal technology executives offered the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations suggestions for improving the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard after five years.

• CIO Council reawakens push to use Technology Business Management standards

  The CIO Council released a new guide developed by the Federal Technology Investment Management community of practice and the General Services Administration’s Office of Governmentwide Policy, called Meeting IT Priorities with Technology Business Management.

• Space acquisition proposals held up amid DoD-OMB negotiations

  Lawmakers probably won't have time to slip ideas to better space procurement in this year's defense policy bill.

• With improved financial outlook, USCIS buys more time to avoid employee furloughs

  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services told employees it would delay the possibility of furloughs until the end of August. Employees will receive another furlough notice in the coming days reflecting the new potential date, the agency said.

• NDAA would create National Cyber Director position in White House

  The bipartisan House provision, advocated by Rep. Jim Langevin, would also work with federal departments to develop a U.S. national cyber strategy.

• Record federal contract spending during a pandemic

  Talk about a mixed bag. There's pandemic and a record season, the federal contracting spending, how ready is your company for all of this?

• Different stimulus bills from the House and Senate to come

  The Senate will craft a stimulus bill very different from that of the House, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services could get bailout help from Congress this week.

• Former federal CIO Kent reflects on her tenure, accomplishments, biggest frustrations

  Suzette Kent, who recently left after more than two years as the federal CIO, said lawmakers need to reconsider how they fund technology modernization efforts so they are not just a one-year effort.

• DoD wants more stimulus money for contractors, lawmaker interest is low

  says it could use another $10 billion to deal with the fallout of coronavirus and keep its industrial base companies afloat.