Tag Archives: Defense Department

Some agency budgets were dealt cuts while others received increases in the fiscal year 2012 spending deal struck last week. In the mix of ups and downs, contractors came away with more certainty. In Monday’s Capital Business, Kevin Plexico, vice president of federal information solutions for research firm Deltek, outlined the allocated …

The Defense Department may be tasked with re-writing the way its investment review board operates due to the newly passed $662 million defense authorization act. According to Federal News Radio, Congress is giving Beth McGrath, the Pentagon’s deputy chief management officer, until March to develop a new system to simplify, …

The Defense Department is aggressively working to consolidate and simplify its information technology networks, according to a department strategy report. The Pentagon says the report lays the foundation for how it will handle IT related issues to improve overall efficiency and cut costs. According to Teri Takai, the defense chief …

Among the many areas fully funded in the omnibus spending package is the Military Health System‘s information technology systems, with $1.4 billion allotted for fiscal year 2012. At the same time, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2012 limits the Pentagon’s power to spend that money. The Act restricts …

Congress has thrown a wrinkle into the federal government’s planned-consolidation of federal data centers by putting the Pentagon‘s own consolidation plans on hold. In November, the Defense Department said in a report that the Defense Information Systems Agency, which operates 14 data centers in the cloud, was its first choice …

The House of Representatives has passed legislation which sets a cap on the number of parking spaces at the Mark Center property in Alexandria. The parking cap, which limits the number of usable parking spaces to roughly 2,000 for around 6,000 federal employees, is a result of worries that interstate …

The risk of a government shutdown is off the table until next fall after nine-month fiscal year 2012 spending bill became law over the weekend. The omnibus bill passed in the Senate on Saturday with a 67-32 vote and was signed into law later that afternoon. The total funding for …

Executive Mosaic, the parent company of ExecutiveGov and a stable of online news properties geared toward the government contracting industry, has launched the most in-depth issue yet of our quarterly print magazine GovConExec. In our winter 2011 issue, we take readers into the new C4ISR for our cover story. C4ISR covers more …

The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act has made it through both houses of Congress and is now off to the White House for signing. The White House had previously issued threats to veto the bill, but lifted any such threat once a clear deal was in sight, according to Politico. The bill …

The federal government was again on the brink of shutting down Friday, but Congress is on track to keep the government running past a Friday deadline. Late Thursday night, congressional leaders reached a tentative deal on the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill that would fund several agencies through to the …