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Jim McAleese, McAleese & Associates

Jim McAleese on the Details and Support for the 2014 Budget Request

As part of his series of conversations in advance of speaking at the Potomac Officers Club‘s Post-Sequestration Summit on Tuesday, May 14, Jim McAleese, founder and principal ...
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Jim McAleese: The 2013 Sequester’s Likely and Potential Impact on the Services

Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates, recently caught up with Executive Mosaic, parent company of the Potomac Officers Club (P.O.C) and publisher of ExecutiveGov, ...
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ExecutiveGov Keeps Watch On Pentagon Sequestration Prep

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 ...
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ExecutiveGov Extends EM’s GovCon Coverage ‘Mosaic’ To Public Sector

Executive Mosaic’s portfolio of websites cover every facet of government contracting in the private sector from the executive’s point of view, ranging from executive movements to ...

5 Things You Should Know about the Debt Ceiling

The federal government’s debt has never been more of a hot-button issue than it is now. After threatened government shutdowns and continued wrangling over the deficit, the ...

Crowded Cosmos Calls for National Security Space Strategy

Image: Melanie Gamarra The Defense Department’s  newly released National Security Space Strategy has made it clear –  once known as the final frontier, the race to leverage ...

Inside Job — How the Government is Bracing for the Insider Threat and Why It Will be Harder Than You Think

Image: Aloysius Patrimonio For years, the concept of cybersecurity centered on protecting computer networks from malicious outsiders bent on sneaking past or breaking through firewalls ...

DoD’s Ash Carter on Doing More without More and ‘Creative Competition’

DoD Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Ashton Carter Forget about “doing more with less.” The Defense Department prefers to think of it as “doing ...

3 Things You Should Know about the Intelligence Budget

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper The budget for the nation’s myriad of intelligence activities is bucking the historical trend in three important ways. First, unlike ...

Forget the Shovel — STAR METRICS Tracks Recovery Act’s ‘Lab-coat-ready’ Projects

Photo: Andrey Kiselev When President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law shortly into his presidency two years ago, the administration and the media ...