Budget
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Pam Turner, managing director at the Prime Policy Group, said most inquiries from the Hill to federal agencies go through the agency\'s office of legislative affairs.
February 06, 2012 -
A bill in the House would prohibit within-grade pay increases through 2012 for federal employees.
February 06, 2012 -
The Air Force plans to further reduce its ranks by 9,900 airmen as part of DoD\'s overall budget reductions. The personnel cuts tilt heavily toward the Air National Guard.
February 06, 2012 -
Budget pressures could delay some of the General Services Administration\'s building projects — or scrap them altogether. Art Turowski, a senior vice president with the Government Investor Services group in Jones Lang LaSalle, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what the new spending numbers mean for the government\'s large-scale construction projects.
February 03, 2012 -
GOP senators unveiled a bill Thursday that would grant the Defense Department a one-year reprieve from \"sequestration\" cuts. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the proposal \"skullduggery.\"
February 03, 2012 -
Mike Brostek, the director of tax issues at GAO, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the watchdog agency\'s recommendations for the IRS program that compares sources of tax information.
February 02, 2012 -
Retired Navy Adm. Fred Lewis, the president of the National Training and Simulation Association, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss how modeling and simulation can play a role in navigating the next decade of Pentagon budget cuts.
February 02, 2012 -
Host Mike Causey is joined by Tom Trabucco, director of external affairs for Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, and Federal Times senior writer Stephen Losey. February 1, 2012
February 01, 2012 -
The Defense Acquisition Board approved the next phase of development for the Defense Enterprise Accounting and Management System or DEAMS.
February 01, 2012 -
The Army Reserve wants to make it easier for soldiers in the active component of the Army to make their way back and forth to the reserve components. To do it, the Reserve will raise its standards for those who continue to serve.
February 01, 2012 -
Jim Lewis, a senior fellow and director of the Technology and Public Policy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the rising profile of cybersecurity in the Defense Department — even as officials have announced impending budget cuts.
January 31, 2012 -
The National Guard and Reserve will be key to implementing the Pentagon\'s plans for \"reversible\" cuts to military ground forces, the Defense Department\'s top policy official said Monday. DoD is still trying to figure out the best ways to keep at least part of the reserve component in an operational status after 10 years of war.
January 31, 2012 -
The Air Force expects to cut its end strength by roughly 10,000 under the new DoD strategy the Pentagon revealed last week. Also the Army\'s service chief indicated DoD plans to ask Congress for two more rounds of base realignments and closures.
January 30, 2012 -
Gordon Adams, a professor of international relations at American University and former associate director at the Office of Management and Budget, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what the new DoD budget really means.
January 27, 2012 -
The Pentagon has unveiled details of a 10-year strategy for defense cuts — including reductions in military pay and benefits. But before any large-scale changes are made, service members should be given a chance to voice their opinions of their compensation packages, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary, a prominent defense think tanks argues. \"The Pentagon is already starting to move to make changes in the compensation system,\" said CSBA senior fellow Todd Harrison. \"And basically our point here is before we start tinkering with things, before we start making changes we need to understand first how service members actually view different parts of their compensation package.\"
January 27, 2012