Pentagon

Report: Pentagon Leaders to Wrap Up Budget Cut Review At Month’s End

Defense Department leaders will propose three scenarios for automatic spending cuts when they present a military strategy report to Secretary Chuck Hagel by the end of the month, Defense ...
Elizabeth McGrath

Elizabeth McGrath: Pentagon to Focus on Operation Costs

Elizabeth McGrath Elizabeth McGrath, Defense Department deputy chief management officer, told the Excellence in Government Forum Tuesday the Pentagon will increasingly focus on operations ...
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Robert Hale: Most Pentagon Construction Programs Not Hit by Sequestration

Robert Hale Robert Hale, Defense Department comptroller, told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Friday that most projects under the Pentagon’s $9.5 billion military construction ...
Jim McAleese, McAleese & Associates

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, ...
Lt. Gen. James Barclay

James Barclay: Sequestration Affects Army’s 3-Year Modernization Plan

Lt. Gen. James Barclay The U.S. Army‘s deputy chief of staff told Senate lawmakers Tuesday the branch has had to carry out its three-year modernization plan with less money than ...
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Ashton Carter Repeats Pentagon Request for New BRAC Round

Ashton Carter Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter reiterated Tuesday the Pentagon’s request for another Base Realignment and Closure Commission round in an effort to help reduce ...
SecurityLock

Report: Pentagon Cuts Clearance Reinvestigation Time, Cites Sequestration

The Defense Security Service has reduced the amount of time it takes to request updated background checks on people holding security clearances from 90 days, Federal Times reports. Jim ...
Pentagon

Senate Urges DoD to Release Plans for Potential $52B Budget Cut in 2014

The Senate Armed Services Committee is looking into the Defense Department’s contingency plans should sequestration slash $52 billion from its fiscal 2014 budget, Federal News ...
Jeff Zients, Shelley Metzenbaum and President Obama (pictured left to right)

Reports: Jeff Zients, Shelley Metzenbaum Depart OMB

Jeff Zients and Shelley Metzenbaum (pictured left to right) Jeff Zients has left the Office of Management and Budget after four years at the agency as deputy director for management ...
Reprogramming

Pentagon to Ask Congress for More Reprogram Authority

The Defense Department could submit another reprogramming request to the House Appropriations Committee as early as next week as the department wants to shift more funds within its ...