President Donald Trump has proposed to Congress a $1.1 trillion budget for fiscal year 2018 and requested $30 billion in supplemental military funds for FY 2017, Defense News reported Thursday. Joe Gould writes the White House’s FY 2018 budget plan would provide the Defense Department with $639 billion, which includes $574 billion for DoD’s base …
Read More »Bloomberg: DoD Needs $530M Extra to Finish F-35 Development Phase
Defense Department officials estimate Pentagon will need an additional $530 million to finish the development phase of Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 fighter jet, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Anthony Capaccio writes the F-35 program office asked for the money during a closed-door review conducted by the Defense Acquisition Board last month and the DoD continues to …
Read More »Reports: GSA to Announce FBI Headquarters Location, Developer in March
The General Services Administration has pushed back to March 2017 the selection of the location and developer of the new FBI headquarters, the Washington Post reported Monday. Jonathan O’Connell writes GSA considers Landover and Greenbelt in Maryland as well as Springfield in Virginia candidate sites for the bureau’s future 2.1 million-square-foot facility. …
Read More »White House Seeks $50B for FY 2017 Civilian Homeland Security Programs
The White House has requested $50.4 billion for fiscal year 2017 to fund civilian agencies involved in homeland security efforts, Federal Times reported Tuesday. Aaron Boyd writes the budget plan for civilian agencies’ homeland security programs represents an increase of 11.5 percent over fiscal year 2016 and allocates more than …
Read More »Military Times: Obama’s FY 2017 Budget Plan Includes 9% Funding Boost for VA
The Department of Veterans Affairs would get more than $177.6 billion in total funds under President Barack Obama’s $4.1 trillion budget request for fiscal 2017, Military Times reported Tuesday. Leo Shane III writes the figure represents an increase of almost 9 percent from the finalized budget of $163 billion for …
Read More »Douglas Loverro: Pentagon Needs More Funds for Space Defense Programs
Douglas Loverro, deputy assistant defense secretary for space policy, said last week the Defense Department is seeking an additional $5 billion to fund a national security space program in fiscal 2016, DoD News reported Thursday. He told the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee Wednesday that the request “is …
Read More »Obama’s Budget Seeks $2.3B Govt IT Funding Boost
President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget proposal includes $86.4 billion for government information technology projects, a $2.3 billion increase from the previous year, Federal Times reported Monday. Aaron Boyd writes Obama asked Congress to earmark $49.1 billion in civilian IT funding and $37.3 billion for military IT spending. The White …
Read More »White House to Send Congress Proposed FY 2016 Budget Feb. 2
The White House plans to release its proposed fiscal year 2016 budget to Congress on Feb. 2, The Hill newspaper reported Wednesday. Bernie Becker writes that this would be the first on-time release of the fiscal framework since 2010 as both Capitol Hill and the White House seek a return to regular order …
Read More »Report: White House Sets March 4 as FY 2015 Budget Proposal Release Date
The White House is working to release its proposed fiscal year 2015 budget on March 4, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Damian Paletta writes the new budget plan will include spending level decisions from a budget agreement signed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D., …
Read More »Senate, House Committees Have $163M Difference on the NIST FY 2014 Budget Proposal
The Senate and House Appropriations committees have released marked up versions of their proposed fiscal 2014 budget for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Fierce Government IT reports Monday. David Perera writes that the House committee announced its $784 million proposal was approved Wednesday and the Senate committee’s $948 …
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