Tech
Lawmakers demand details on security grant program
Program aims to help municipalities buy and deploy communications equipment that can work across jurisdictions.
Defense
Academics urge Congress to go beyond acquisition panel proposals
Researchers characterize recommendations as careful, say bid protests and other accountability measures should apply to all purchases.
Defense
Senate backs screener bargaining rights despite veto threat
Massive homeland security bill passes on 60-38 vote.
Defense
Senate rejects GOP changes to anti-terrorism bill
One of the defeated amendments would have caused every provision in the bill to expire in five years.
Defense
Marine Corps chief says building a larger force will be tough
The Corps is preparing to try to attract 5,000 more new troops each year over the next five years.
Defense
Lawmaker probes contract oversight at DHS agency
Letters to key Homeland Security officials ask for more detail on the budget challenges facing the Federal Protective Service.
Defense
OMB: Benefits of 2006 regulations outweigh costs
Agency reports $44.8 billion in annual benefits, mostly from new air quality limits on soot.
Defense
Committee approves modified contracting reform bill
Panels still are negotiating over language that would expand the number of procurement officials subject to stringent post-employment restrictions.
Defense
Dems remove Iran language from bill to boost war funding
House plan includes a lot of add-ons for domestic priorities, and incorporates major contracting reform legislation.
Management
Army medical commander retires over Walter Reed fiasco
Kevin Kiley is the latest casualty; Army convenes board to select new surgeon general.
Defense
Halliburton retreats from Iraq logistics work
With sale of subsidiary KBR, company distances itself from highly criticized federal contract.
Defense
Study highlights differences between military, civilian leaders
Senior military officials rate higher than their civilian counterparts on leadership, but don't score as well in management.
Defense
Forward Observer: Herding Cats
The leader of the House Appropriations Committee faces the daunting task of lining up support for the wartime supplemental funding bill.
Defense
Senate work on security bill to spill over to next week
Republicans continue to object to a provision in the bill that would grant federal airport screeners collective bargaining rights.
Defense
Rule broadens DHS post-employment lobbying limits
Senior officials will be prohibited from lobbying anywhere in the department for 12 months after they leave.
Defense
Defense chief may scale back Pentagon’s spy work
The Pentagon has encroached on the CIA’s territory, through programs in such areas as human intelligence-gathering.
Defense
Bill to boost war spending has something for everyone
Democrats add $21 billion to Bush's $103 billion request; Republicans say they will only support a “clean” bill focusing on troop support.
Defense
Procedural haggles continue to stall security bill in Senate
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., who is managing the bill, decries "political gridlock."
Defense
Dems seek funding boost for Afghanistan, domestic programs
Bill would set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq by next fall; White House threatens a veto.
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