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OMB controller Danny Werfel said the Treasury Department should be finished testing and analyzing systems in the next six months. The CFO Council highlights priorities for 2011, and among them is the further reduction of improper payments. Werfel said agencies will begin using the software tool first utilized by the Recovery Board to identify potential problems.
January 12, 2011 -
For many years, the Pentagon budget has been off-limits, but some Congressional decision-makers are saying things like \"everything should be on the table.\"
January 11, 2011 -
Beginning in February, all Defense Department components will be required to use new online tools to generate cost estimates for \"any new proposal or initiative, large or small.\" Secretary Robert Gates in a memo urged DoD employees to start using the online tools now.
January 10, 2011 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency will include an office dedicated to helping members of the armed forces. It will be led by Holly Petraeus, wife of the commander of forces in Afghanistan.
January 10, 2011 -
Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas) introduces legislation to cut the federal workforce by 10 percent and freeze federal pay for an additional year. The bill includes a host of suggestions to cut spending from both the commission and from the Obama and Bush administrations. Brady said collecting unpaid taxes from federal employees could result in $3 billion.
January 10, 2011 -
While each of the military services will have access to money freed up by Defense Secretary Robert\'s Gates efficiency initiative, they will not be able to use it all on new capabilities as he originally intended.
January 10, 2011 -
Another potential flare-up has surfaced in Middle East. Palestinian and Israeli officials say Israeli troops mistakenly shot and killed a 65-year-old Palestinian man in his bed during a pre-dawn raid Friday in order to arrest a Hamas militant. Palestinian security and rescue officials in the West Bank city of Hebron said Israeli troops shot and killed the man who lived in the same building but on a different floor as the Hamas militant targeted in the early morning raid.
January 09, 2011 -
General George Casey will complete his tour as Army Chief of Staff later this spring. Gen. Martin Dempsey is expected to replace him. If President Barack Obama accepts and nominates Dempsey, he would have to be confirmed by the Senate. Dempsey is now commander of Army Training and Doctrine Command and previously was acting commander of Central Command. He also led the multi-national training effort in Iraq and commanded the 1st Armored Division in Baghdad.
January 09, 2011 -
Despite what he called \'strong objections\' to limitations in the bill on the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees, President Obama on Friday signed the 2011 defense authorization bill
January 07, 2011 -
A memorandum signed by the president Thursday night gives DoD the green light to formally shut down the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said about half the command\'s functions will stay in the Norfolk area, while Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner\'s office said JFCOM would be revamped and renamed.
January 07, 2011 -
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January 07, 2011 -
DoD is expanding the use of demilitarized zones to improve security of its unclassified network. Over the next two years, DISA require all service applications to go through these buffer zones.
January 07, 2011 -
DISA\'s Tony Montemarano said the agency wants to use more performance based contracts to better manage contractors.
January 07, 2011 -
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that the Pentagon will reduce costs by raising health care premiums of working-age military retirees.
January 07, 2011 -
GAO\'s Michael Sullivans explains the recommendations for the Defense Department to improve oversight of its power source investments.
January 06, 2011