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House Small Business Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-Mo.) has introduced legislation aimed at helping credit prime contractors for awarding subcontracts to small businesses in the same manner agencies are credited. The Make Every Small Business Count Act of 2013 intends to let large contractors count all awards to small businesses beyond …

President Barack Obama’s fiscal year 2014 budget proposal may have set aside at least $5.4 billion for classified information technology, FCW reported Friday. Adam Mazmanian writes the federal IT dashboard posted on April 12 shows a $34.1 billion budget for defense infrastructure, or a little more than $5 billion short …

The departments of Defense and Interior took the top spots in an annual customer satisfaction survey measuring services in economic sectors, GovExec reports. Eric Katz writes that the federal government as a whole ranked 10th out of 10 sectors in the American Customer Satisfaction Index survey but individual departments tended …

Steve Cooper, deputy chief information officer at the Federal Aviation Administration, has told Federal News Radio he is retiring from the government Thursday and taking an early buyout from the agency. Cooper told reporter Jason Miller he may not have a successor as FAA CIO Tina Amereihn is reorganizing the …

The Securities and Exchange Commission has appointed Geoffrey Aronow general counsel, where he will serve as the agency’s chief legal officer and advise the commission on enforcement actions, rulemaking and federal court cases. The SEC said Aronow, a partner in the Washington office of law firm Bingham McCutchen LLP since September …

As the department responsible for securing unclassified networks on .gov domains for federal civilian departments and agencies, the Department of Homeland Security will have to pick up the $6 billion bill for doing so. Nextgov reports DHS will handle the financial responsibility for continuous monitoring because many agencies do not …

Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah have received approval to run their own health insurance exchanges starting in January 2014, Reuters reports. David Morgan reports 17 states and the District of Columbia are set to run their own exchanges under the Affordable Care Act and Mississippi has applied to run its own …

A law signed by President Barack Obama this week will include contract awards to small businesses as part of performance reviews of senior agency officials, the Washington Post reports. J.D. Harrison writes those reviews will help determine potential bonuses and promotions for officials. Margot Dorfman, vice president of the National …

Only states that implement a full expansion of their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act will receive federal funds, the Department of Health and Human Services said this week. Kaiser Health News reports states that only partially expand their programs will get no federal funds. Under the ACA, Medicaid …

A new directive from President Barack Obama guides the operations of federal agencies against cyber threats and gives the military power to be more aggressive against those threats, the Washington Post reports. Ellen Nakashima writes Presidential Policy Directive 20 was signed in mid-October and aims to help define what constitutes …