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Now contractors are asking what their obligations are this year, and the Defense Department is even going to verify compliance.
If Congress passes the budgets Federal News Radio has been hearing about, it could trigger sequestration.
The Defense Department says it wants to begin a new era of open communications with industry, seeking input to improve defense acquisitions.
David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, has narrowed the 1,266 pages of the NDAA down to four essential things they need to know.
A new sequestration update determined defense discretionary spending would need to be cut by $72.4 billion in fiscal 2018 based on the House appropriations bills.
Budget experts say it's only prudent for federal contractors to start preparing now for a possible government shutdown on Oct. 1.
The backlog in federal security background checks seems impervious to efforts to cut it down, especially with no CIO at the Office of Personnel Management.
The House passed a "minibus" of 2018 spending bills before leaving town for a month-long recess. Budget experts say the possibility of sequestration isn't the only reason why the minibus has little chance of survival.
For federal contractors, summer vacations can be problematic. That's because the start of summer also brings the last fiscal quarter and the scramble to use funds before they run out. It's a more concentrated issue this year because of how late Congress approved the 2017 budget. David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, provides an overview of the next 11 weeks on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Trump administration will soon be asking for public comment and expert input on what a reorganized federal government would look like. David Berteau, president of the Professional Services Council, said this will be reminiscent of another reorganization from the Reagan era, the Grace Commission.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the resolution is part of a package, signed by President Donald Trump, to "roll back job killing rules."
The process might not be pretty, but budget experts predict civilian agencies won't face $18 billion in spending cuts during the last five months of fiscal 2017. The President submitted a budget amendment for 2017 last week, which proposed major boosts to defense and homeland security spending and civilian agency offsets.
In part two of a special report: Defense Acquisition at a Crossroads, Federal News Radio examines the challenges the Defense Department will face as it implements numerous Congressional acquisition reforms, many of which it didn't ask for.
The Pentagon’s internal improvement plan, known as Better Buying Power, coincided with several consecutive years of declines in the rate of cost growth for the Pentagon’s major weapons systems, from more than 9 percent in 2011 to 3.5 percent in 2015, the lowest level since 1985.