The U.S. House voted 228-199 Wednesday to pass a fiscal 2016 budget plan that includes an extra $20 billion for overseas contingency operations spending, the New York Times reported Thursday. Jonathan Weisman
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The Obama administration’s proposed information technology budget and recent hiring of industry technologists reflect the administration’s strategy to derive value from federal IT investments, Federal Times reported Tuesday. Aaron Boyd and Amber
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel believes the current crisis in Iraq could push the Defense Department to reconsider its $555 billion fiscal year 2015 budget proposal, Defense News reported Thursday. Gen. Martin Dempsey,
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The House of Representatives has passed a $17 billion budget plan for the Veterans Affairs Department, Reuters reported Wednesday. David Lawder writes the House voted 420-5 to approve the bill that would
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The U.S. Navy says it will be unable to match its current budget plan with the funding requirements to build new surface warships and submarines between 2025 and 2034, Bloomberg reported Monday.
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Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has discussed the Pentagon’s $496 billion proposed budget for the next fiscal year with the Business Roundtable, Reuters reported Wednesday. David Alexander reports Hagel held the meeting Wednesday
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The White House released a set of fiscal year 2015 budget documents Monday that propose adding up to 14,000 new workers to the existing federal workforce in the next fiscal year, GovExec
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The White House’s defense budget proposal for fiscal year 2015 includes increases to out-of-pocket costs for beneficiaries under the Tricare military healthcare system, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Michael O’Connell writes the
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A budget proposal released by the White House Tuesday seeks to increase federal workers’ pay and funding for government employee training programs in fiscal 2015, Federal News Radio reported Tuesday. Jack Moore
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President Barack Obama has proposed a $79.1 billion information technology budget for fiscal 2015, down from the fiscal 2014 budget of $81.4 billion, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Joseph Marks writes Steven VanRoekel, federal
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