The Pentagon is continuing to develop a plan to ensure its financial statements can be audited, the deputy defense secretary told a House panel after the department was scolded for failing to comply with the law.
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The Pentagon is continuing to develop a plan to ensure its financial statements can be audited, the deputy defense secretary told a House panel after the department was scolded for failing to comply with the law.
The top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee expects that Congress will use continuing resolutions for the duration of fiscal year 2011 instead of passing a spending bill.
The Pentagon should consider designating a new senior leadership position to oversee the Defense Department's business operations, a responsibility now held by the deputy defense secretary, the Defense Business Board recommended today.
The Pentagon should establish an office within its acquisition directorate to oversee strategic sourcing directives and prevent duplication and inefficiency among the military departments, according to the Defense Business Board.
In the newly passed defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2011, Congress is requiring annual reports from military departments and defense agencies on steps they have taken to rebuild the workforce -- a provision the Pentagon has called "unnecessary and excessively burdensome" and urged leaving on the cutting room floor.
The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff today downplayed a second consecutive test failure of the Pentagon's ballistic missile defense system, stating that the United States has enough interceptors in the field to protect itself against threats.
Defense Department agencies and components have failed to submit complete information about non-competitive contract awards to the Pentagon's public affairs office, prompting the defense procurement and acquisition policy shop to conduct periodic checks, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Wednesday.
The Obama administration intends to create the first formal IT program manager career path, encourage agencies to work closely with industry and require the use of cloud computing whenever possible, all part of an overhaul of IT program management, U.S. Chief Performance Officer and acting director of the Office of Management and Budget Jeffrey Zients announced today.
The upcoming lame-duck session of Congress is the "last" and "best" opportunity for the Senate to ratify the follow-on Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, a senior State Department official told a packed room at the U.S. Institute of Peace this morning.
The ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee today told the outgoing chairman of his "unequivocal opposition" to a massive omnibus spending bill for fiscal year 2011.
The Pentagon's first attempt to audit a military department's statement of budgetary resources will not be completed as planned, forcing defense officials to determine whether they want to issue a late audit opinion or turn their attention to next year's edition.
Under its efficiencies task force, the Pentagon has established eight study groups to examine different areas of Defense Secretary Robert Gates' plan to create efficiencies in the department, according to an internal document reviewed by Inside the Pentagon.
The post of Defense Department chief information officer is back up for grabs.
The Pentagon's pending National Security Space Strategy will focus on deterring and defeating threats to U.S. space systems and increasing those systems' resilience to intrusion, according to the Defense Department's No. 2 policy official.
If the Senate fails to ratify the follow-on Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, the U.S. government could have to divert money from troops on the ground in Afghanistan to build up nuclear capabilities, a senior State Department official warned today.
The Pentagon is in the final phases of an internal review to determine why an unmanned, rocket-launched, hypersonic air vehicle failed to complete its test run over the Pacific Ocean earlier this year, according to a senior defense official.
The Pentagon should play a leading role in the development and testing of clean energy technology and forge a new partnership with the Energy Department, a new study by retired admirals and generals urges -- just as the two departments are poised to announce tighter ties.
House authorizers have proposed dramatic changes to the makeup and mandate of future panels tasked with assessing Quadrennial Defense Reviews.