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DoD Reporter's Notebook

Congress taps brakes on DoD project to reform IT funding

The House-Senate appropriations agreement leaves out a DoD request to significantly expand a pilot program to test "colorless" appropriations for software and technology development.

Congress

Senate passes 2022 federal spending bill, sends to Biden's desk

Defense News

Pentagon comptroller says space, AI, microelectronics key in next budget

Defense

Pentagon says full-year CR would cut its 2022 spending by more than $20B

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Moving more TRICARE patients to civilian care would cause 'significant harm,' study finds

Budget

Senate Democrats unveil 2022 appropriations bills, back Biden's planned federal pay raise

Federal Newscast

A delayed budget could hamstring the Space Force

Sun shines on the U.S. Capitol dome, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Congress

7-bill spending minibus clears House, retains Biden's proposed federal pay raise

The new USS Little Rock arrives at Buffalo harbor with a police and fireboat escort, Monday, Dec. 4, 2017, in Buffalo, N.Y. The littoral combat ship will be docked on the Lake Erie waterfront until its commissioning Dec. 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thhompson)

Defense

Pentagon faces political battle to retire old weapons systems — and some newer ones

Workforce

Expecting new employees in your agency? Time to remember the onboarding basics

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Pay

UPDATED House appropriators formally endorse Biden’s 2022 federal pay proposal

Contracting

For contractors, the GSA multiple awards schedule could be a safe harbor in the year ahead

The U.S. Capitol is seen as national guard members pass by on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 20, 2021. The House voted to create an independent commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sending the legislation to an uncertain future in the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Congress

Let's face it - Congress has more to chew than it can digest

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Workforce

Biden's 2022 budget calls for big staffing increases at several civilian cabinet agencies

FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military increased by a very small amount in 2020, a year when troops were largely locked down for months as bases around the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, according to U.S. officials. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Budget

The Biden administration's proposed Defense budget is going to force some tough choices

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Cuyahoga Community College Metropolitan Campus, Thursday, May 27, 2021, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Reporter's Notebook

Biden’s 2022 budget request was light on federal IT, cyber policy goals, but heavy spending

FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. Lawmakers are increasingly looking at boosting the IRS to help pay for infrastructure improvements. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Budget

IRS chips away at legacy IT, gets IT modernization boost in Biden budget

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Defense

Pentagon wants to use its biggest IT program to test 'colorless' software appropriation

FILE - In this June 3, 2011, file photo, the Pentagon is seen from air from Air Force One. It’s the biggest budget the Pentagon has ever seen: $700 billion. That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia, and will mean the military can for the bill for thousands more troops, more training, more ships and a lot else. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Defense

DoD budget largely flat, cuts legacy systems for modernization

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Pay & Benefits

2022 budget calls for federal pay raise, hiring boosts at several agencies

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Veterans Affairs

Another year, another record-high budget request for VA

FILE - This March 27, 2008, file photo, shows the Pentagon in Washington. Defense officials say the Pentagon will sweep away Trump-era policies that largely banned transgender people from serving in the military and will issue new rules that broaden their access to medical care and gender transition. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Defense

$715B defense budget takes flak from left and right

President Joe Biden, accompanied by from left, Council of Economic Advisers chairwoman Cecilia Rouse, National Economic Council director Brian Deese, Vice President Kamala Harris, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Office of Management and Budget acting director Shalanda Young, speaks as he gets his weekly economic briefing in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, April 9, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Budget

Biden calls on Congress to restore capacity, reinvest in civilian agencies with 2022 budget