Budget
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Obama, flanked by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, unveiled the results of an eight-month defense strategy review that is intended to guide decisions on cutting hundreds of billions from planned Pentagon spending over the coming decade. But the eight-page document contained no details about how broad concepts for reshaping the military will translate into troop or weapons cuts.
January 06, 2012 -
The President and the Pentagon gave the rough outlines Thursday for how they plan to create a lean, but still effective military. Ground forces will shrink, capabilities in cyber, ISR, technology will grow.
January 06, 2012 -
Bill Dougan, the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the importance of federal labor-management forums and why they could hang in the balance.
January 05, 2012 -
Rudy DeLeon, the former deputy defense secretary, told In Depth with Francis Rose the new strategy and the key ideas behind did not come out of the blue. \"This has been coming for a while,\" he said, including the possibility of military pay and benefits being on the table.
January 05, 2012 -
A list of agencies considering or offering buyouts and early retirements in 2012.
January 05, 2012 -
The Pentagon chief says the U.S. will have to make some tradeoffs and take some extra risks under the new military strategy laid out to absorb federal budget cuts.
January 05, 2012 -
President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, brief the media today on their strategy for a slimmed-down DoD.
January 05, 2012 -
Marco Giamberardino, senior director of the Associated General Contractors of America\'s federal and heavy construction division, outlines the winners and losers of the FY2012 budget for federal construction.
January 05, 2012 -
The Postal Regulatory Commission has criticized the Postal Service\'s proposal to consider closing more than 3,600 post offices as part of its plan to avoid a projected $14 billion loss this year. The plan is causing anxiety in communities that depend on their post offices and it would not save that much money, PRC Chairman Ruth Goldway told Federal News Radio. The commission will be watching the agency\'s cash flow closely in the coming months.
January 04, 2012 -
John Kamensky, a senior fellow with the IBM Center for the Business of Government and an associate partner at IBM\'s Global Business Services, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss new ways of dealing with budget problems.
January 04, 2012 -
Amid the partisan wrangling, near shutdowns and crises averted 2011 saw serious proposals to reduce the federal workforce, rework its benefits and retirement structures and lock in stagnant pay rates for another year or two. Here\'s what to look for in 2012.
January 04, 2012 -
Peter Schroeder, a reporter with the Hill, told The Federal Drive with Tom Temin that he doesn\'t expect any surprises when Congress reconvenes to vote on the President\'s debt limit increase request.
January 04, 2012 -
Tom Shoop, the editor-in-chief of Government Executive magazine, posited on his blog that the Defense Department\'s soon-to-be-released budget cuts will almost certainly involve changes to its pay and benefits structure. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the plan.
January 03, 2012 -
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says that despite proposed cuts, Pentagon will still be able to fight one major conflict at a time.
January 03, 2012 -
The year can be summed up by a trio of showdowns, said Peter Schroeder, a staff writer with The Hill newspaper, in an interview on Federal Drive with Tom Temin. The near-government shutdown in April, the August debt ceiling showdown and the last-minute wrangling over the payroll tax cut.
December 29, 2011