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Budget
October 2022
Congress Leaves Defense Department Hanging
The Defense Department started fiscal year 2023 with the same funding as 2022, and no adjustment for the roughly 9 percent inflation since the beginning of fiscal year 2022. -
Budget
September 2022
Congress Continues to Kick Appropriations Can
The federal government will ring in the fiscal new year under a continuing resolution — the device Congress uses to paper over its persistent failure to appropriate. -
Budget
August 2022
America Pushes Its CHIPS All In, Will it Pay Off?
Growing demand for high-tech devices in the consumer and defense sectors was straining the global chip supply chain before the pandemic, and companies around the world have been struggling to find the workforce needed to feed the world’s chip habit. -
Small Business
August 2022
Small Business Programs at Risk As Congress Debates Merits
By Kea MatoryDue to sunset provisions in the Small Business Innovation Research and the Small Business Technology Transfer programs, absent an extension through further legislative action, the programs will cease at the end of this fiscal year. -
Space
March 2019
JUST IN: Key Lawmaker Optimistic Congress Will Green Light Space Force
By Jon HarperThere is a good chance Congress will authorize the creation of a new space force for the military, one of President Donald Trump’s signature initiatives, an influential Democratic lawmaker said March 20. -
Government Contracting Insights
March 2017
Cybersecurity Requirements Clarified
By Susan Cassidy and Patrick StantonThe Defense Department's recently updated frequently asked questions for a Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement can be helpful for those contractors still working on its implementation.
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