defense spending

Lots of talk about AI, but are agencies spending money on it?

Federal agencies are looking at different ways to utilize artificial intelligence. But just how much of their budgets are agency leaders willing to put AI?

Artificial Intelligence

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Passing 2025 defense spending bill will be ‘particularly difficult’

Defense

Pentagon’s 2025 budget boosts personnel budget, cuts end strength

Defense

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Is spending on American defense too much or perhaps not enough on the right things

Defense

FILE - The U.S. Capitol building is seen before sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March. 21, 2022. With an urgent funding request stuck in Congress, the Health Resources and Services Administration says it can no longer cover medical bills for COVID tests and treatments for uninsured people and will stop taking claims at midnight Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

The worsening Ukraine situation causes Congress to reexamine the defense budget

Congress

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Chairman Sen. Gary Peters., D-Mich., speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs & Senate Rules and Administration joint hearing on Capitol Hill, Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, to examine the January 6th attack on the Capitol. (Erin Scott/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Senators want to eliminate any conflicts of interest with government contractors

Federal Newscast

40 lawmakers call for 5% increase in Defense budget

Federal Newscast

Congress taps brakes on DoD project to reform IT funding

DoD Reporter's Notebook

Defense innovation bumps up against a Cold War budget system

Defense

The Old Post Office Pavilion Clock Tower, which remains open during the partial government shutdown, is seen above the Trump International Hotel, Friday, Jan. 4, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

House Dems think GSA should break lease with Trump Org. after accounting flaws revealed

Federal Newscast

The military has a hard time doing its job when Congress doesn’t do its job

Defense

More DoD contracting dollars are going to shrinking pool of small businesses

The Defense Department has been steadily increasing the number of contracting dollars it directs to small business.

Defense

House leadership wants to get on with a final appropriation agreement for fiscal 2022

For more, Bloomberg Government Deputy News Director Loren Duggan spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

Congress

While the Pentagon is doing more business with small companies, the list of candidates is shrinking

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department has spent more of its contracting budget on small businesses in recent years, but those dollars are going to a shrinking pool of companies.