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The Army awarded General Dynamics and BAE Systems contracts for the technology development phase of the Ground Combat Vehicle contract.
On today\'s Federal Drive: OMB\'s budget guidance calls for cuts to agency spending, the SEC is hit by allegations of destroying documents and the USPS begins negotiating with two postal unions.
Agencies must sharpen their pencils to figure out what they can afford in 2012 and beyond. The Labor Department is asking program offices to rethink and redo budget proposals and plans. The Air Force will need to take more surgical cuts to find savings.
The Joint Task Force National Capital Region\'s effort to consolidate and bring disparate medical data together is in the home stretch. Created by BRAC, the office is making it easier for doctors and nurses to access wounded warriors and beneficiary information whenever and wherever it\'s needed. August 18, 2011
Analysis from: Jonathan Breul, executive director, IBM Center for the Business of Government Doug Davidson, director in the Global Public Sector Practice at Grant Thornton, and the publisher of the Federal Financial Management News blog, FedCFO.com.
David Maurer, director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues at GAO, explains why FPS is out of time and money.
The nine biggest contractors make more than 70 percent of their revenue from the federal government.
Kevin Connelly is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw. He has chaired the firm\'s government contracts practice group since 2002.
Debra Filippi is a former federal employee and is now a Principal Consultant at Suss Consulting.
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel detailed in a memo what agencies must do to reduce the number of agency websites. He extended the freeze on new dot-gov domains through Dec. 31.
Bewtra also shares what he thinks agencies can to do make doing business with government easier.
Agencies must submit 2013 budget requests that cut at least 5 percent in spending in discretionary spending compared with this year. Agencies must also submit a version of their 2013 budgets that shows options for cutting an additional 5 percent, or a total of 10 percent, below discretionary spending for this year.
The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today\'s terrorist is more likely to operate alone rather than as part of a 9/11-type of coordinated plot, and thus harder to detect. In the face of budget cuts, DHS is focused on managing risks and cooperating with the public to prevent attacks.
Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said a new pilot program that allows for more cybersecurity information sharing between the Pentagon and contractors appears to be working well.