The Defense Contract Management Agency is in the process of hiring personnel for its network of “centers of excellence” that aim to give procurement and contracting officers guidance on what constitutes as a commercial
The National Institutes of Health would have to cut $1.6 billion from its budget for fiscal year 2013 under the automatic sequestration cuts scheduled to take effect Friday, USA Today reports. Dan
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The House is considering a defense appropriations bill that would let the Defense Department bring forward new programs before sequestration cuts would start affecting those programs, the Washington Business Journal reports. Some
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The Defense Department has developed a plan aimed at providing the department’s nearly 600,000 mobile-device users secure classified and protected unclassified mobile platforms. Implementation of the plan will focus on devices, wireless
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The Senate voted 58-41 Tuesday to confirm Chuck Hagel as the next defense secretary and will be sworn into office Wednesday, Reuters reports. Patricia Zengerle writes that four Republicans supported Hagel’s nomination
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The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday approved the nomination of Jack Lew, former White House chief of staff, as treasury secretary by a 19-5 vote, Politico reports. Kelsey Snell writes Lew’s nomination
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Sen. Tom Coburn has asked Jeff Zients, deputy director of management at the Office of Budget and Management, to re-direct money from 10 jobs to other positions as a way to handle
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Tens of thousands of jobs in Maryland and Virginia are at stake as a result of $85 billion in automatic budget cuts under sequestration, the states’ respective governors said in an interview
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The Small Business Administration and the Smithsonian Institution project they will not need to furlough workers in the event of sequestration cuts taking effect, GovExec reports. Eric Katz writes those agencies instead
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The White House will release the results of federally-funded research to the public within a year for no cost, Reuters reports. An online petition on the White House website calling for the
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All federal agencies are eyeing a March 1 deadline, when automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration are set to kick in. Barring a deal on Capitol Hill, nearly $85 billion will
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