Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson said Tuesday that the private sector will make up for the 28 percent reduction in U.S. diplomacy and foreign aid spending that President Trump’s budget calls
MoreThe Government Accountability Office has urged the secretary of defense to instruct the U.S. Army to select a point of contact for information related to armored commercial passenger-carrying vehicles. The GAO said in a report
MoreThe White Houseâs proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 would allocate $37.6 billion in total base discretionary funds for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, Deltek reported Thursday.
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The General Services Administration plans to launch a blockchain pilot initiative this summer as part of the agency’s Emerging Citizen Technology program that seeks to explore how artificial intelligence and new technologies can be
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Frontis Wiggins, chief information officer at the State Department, has said the agency aims to address issues with the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act implementation as well as change the way
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President Donald Trump will nominate John Sullivan, a partner at Washington, D.C.-based law firm Mayer Brown, as deputy secretary of the State Department, Politico reported Tuesday. Cristiano Lima writes Sullivan will serve as second-in-command
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President Donald Trumpâs supplemental budget request for fiscal year 2017 would allocate $3 billion in additional funds for the Department of Homeland Security to support immigration enforcement and border security programs in his
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The Government Accountability Office has found that the departments of Defense and State facilitated 194 security cooperation and assistance efforts during fiscal 2016 to help build foreign partners’ capacity to mitigate security-related threats. GAO said Friday DoD
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House Democratic lawmakers have cited a Defense Department-backed study to question President Donald Trumpâs proposed budget for fiscal 2018 that would increase defense spending by $54 billion, Defense News reported Tuesday. Lawmakers who
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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
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