GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

billion, the Department of Homeland Security’s fiscal year 2025 budget request represents a $4.5 Anchored at $107.9 billion increase over its FY 2024 request. With these allocations, which include $62.2

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 1, 2024

According to Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch of Viasat , the commercial satellite communications industry views the inclusion of a $134 million line item for commercial satcom integration within the proposed fiscal year 2025 Pentagon budget as a positive development. "We're

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The Coalition is thrilled to unveil the agenda for the governmentwide day of our 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ! Join us as we dive into what lies ahead for federal procurement in 2025 and beyond! Click here to register. Click here to register. November 19 : Small Business Summit – Reston, VA.

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FedScoop

JUNE 4, 2024

Working under the threat of technology-related budget cuts that has elicited concern from both sides of the aisle , the Department of Veterans Affairs has managed to make progress on several tech priorities, the agency’s artificial intelligence chief said last week. I wish we could do more,” he said. What is your response to them?

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Federal News Network

MARCH 5, 2024

Even as Congress takes up spending bills for a fiscal year already half over, budget watchers are preparing for release of the administration’s 2025 wish list. With all the votes in the president’s budget. So, there’s really a lot of interest in what’s in this FY 25 budget.

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FedScoop

MAY 10, 2024

The NRC’s congressional budget justification for fiscal year 2025 carved out over $4 million for AI-related funds. Staff reported that the broad approach to AI research is “preparing the agency to use AI to increase staff knowledge and experience for future regulatory reviews and oversight.”

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FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

Modernizing the governmentwide compliance program for cloud services has been top of mind for Washington IT leaders in recent years, most notably with the passing of the FedRAMP Authorization Act in 2022 and the release of an Office of Management and Budget draft policy memorandum on overhauling program operations and governance in 2023.

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GovCon Wire

JULY 23, 2024

A new McAleese & Associates report indicates that the Senate Armed Services Committee’s $875 billion annual defense policy bill reflects a 3 percent increase, or $25 billion, from the White House’s proposed $850 billion budget for the Department of Defense.

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FedScoop

JUNE 26, 2024

31, 2025. , 31, 2024 and subsequently put into effect by the end of 2025, OSTP noted that some agencies have already posted plans for policy development. All “covered agencies” have submitted their plans for policy development to both OSTP and the Office of Management and Budget, per the report.

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Government Contracts

JUNE 11, 2024

6 jury selection date has been set in a federal corruption case accusing a former Connecticut state budget official, lawmaker and beleaguered attorney of extortion and bribery in connection with millions in school finance projects.

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 15, 2024

federal government not having yet passed a full-year defense appropriation for fiscal year 2024, the Navy has ironed out its request for FY 2025, including a sizable amount for its contribution to the Department of Defense’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, DefenseScoop reports. Despite the U.S.

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FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

As the IRS’s Direct File pilot approaches the end of its 2024 runway, a new watchdog report finds that the tax agency’s cost estimates for the program were incomplete and would need “a comprehensive accounting” ahead of a potential takeoff in 2025.

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Whistleblower Network News

APRIL 26, 2024

On April 4, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on the Budget, wrote a letter to Gary Gensler , the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), expressing concerns about delays and lack of transparency in the agency’s whistleblower compensation.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Most recently, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) noted in its 2025 Homeland Threat Assessment that, “domestic and foreign adversaries almost certainly will continue to threaten the integrity of U.S. critical infrastructure, in part, because they perceive targeting these sectors would have cascading impacts on U.S.

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FedScoop

JUNE 14, 2024

Acknowledging that the authorities of the SEC and CFTC can be questioned due to their independent statuses, the report recommends the codification of President Joe Biden’s AI executive order and subsequent Office of Management and Budget guidance , extending both documents to independent agencies to “ensure consistent application of AI policy.”

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FedScoop

APRIL 18, 2024

Martorana said in an interview with FedScoop after the Tuesday event that she believes that as the Office of Management and Budget and GSA disclose when tech projects across the federal government are in operation, Congress will recognize that the TMF “is a wonderful funding vehicle.” We haven’t identified this whole ecosystem yet.”

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GovTribe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) budget allocations bring modest increases in defense and technology spending, but overall, growth is limited — just a 1% rise in discretionary spending caps from last year ( Committee for a Responsible Budget ).

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to the survey, 50% of respondents said their agencies are actively developing their post-quantum cryptography readiness strategies and 35% are defining their plans and budgets. Based on those figures, the White House later concluded that the approximate funding needed for the transition between 2025 and 2035 would be $7.1

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 12, 2024

With many constraints and demands on local budgets, getting additional resources can be difficult—forcing educators to do more with less. That’s why AWS is committed to advancing AI skills for educators, through initiatives like AI Ready , a commitment to offer free AI skills training opportunities to 2 million people globally by 2025.

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Federal News Network

MAY 7, 2024

Appropriations arriving six months late for the current fiscal year and Congress futzing over next year’s budget, which will also arrive late. We went from 2024 straight into 2025. It is that most magical time of the year. Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And this is becoming routine. And that’s right.

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GovCon Wire

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Pentagon’s fiscal year 2024 budget reached approximately $841.4 billion for FY 2025. The sprawling Department of Defense relies on extensive funding to support the military services and other defense agencies. billion in fiscal year 2024, and it has requested $849.8

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FedScoop

JULY 5, 2024

Brown said O’Malley has been meeting regularly with lawmakers to make the case for President Joe Biden’s fiscal year 2025 budget request and the 8% boost for SSA that comes with it. Sustaining the agency’s digital momentum will depend in part on Congress.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Victoria Houed, director of AI policy and strategy to the undersecretary for economic affairs at the Department of Commerce, said the agency is aiming to publish that guidance by the end of the year or, if not, January 2025. It’s such a resource-heavy initiative that we don’t have the budget to do,” she said.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 3, 2024

The NRC's IT budget for 2024 is $170 million and the agency requested $190 million for 2025. ( Before joining the CIO's office, Flanders led the Division of Site Safety and Environmental Analysis in the then Office of New Reactors.

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GovSpend

JUNE 20, 2024

The last extension in FY 22 extended the program through September 30th, 2025, and showcased the federal government’s enduring commitment to fostering innovation and entrepreneurial advancement. to the SBIR program if their extramural research and development budgets exceed $100M.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The Coalition invites you to explore the agendas and register for the 2024 Fall Training Conference – The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ! Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market?

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The theme of this year’s two-day conference will be “ The 2025 Federal Market: What’s Next? ” Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market? What’s next for interagency contracting?

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

According to Gartner, up to 67% of ERP implementations fail — and as more solutions migrate to the cloud, they predict the failure rate could climb to as much as 90% by 2025. In fact, 74% of ERP implementations go Over Budget and they take longer to roll out. Why ERP Implementations Fail and will fail for Healthcare Supply Chains.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A timeline for a potential anti-dumping investigation initiated on 1 January 2025 may be as follows: To date, the Commission very rarely imposed duties retroactively. This makes contingency budgeting all the more important.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Department of the Navy is putting its contractors on notice to deliver ships, aircraft and submarines on time and on budget. I think that in 2024 and 2025, we're going to pilot various ways of what this can look like," said OPM Deputy Associate Director for FEBs Kelly DeGraff.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 1, 2024

An Office of Management and Budget spokesperson said the FAR case is on pause to allow further analysis of security considerations, such as roles and responsibilities for the lifecycle management of the data. Agencies now can place orders through April 2025. AI has come a long way in four years.”

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 22, 2024

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks will provide an update on DoD budget priorities that shaped the department's budget request for fiscal 2025. McCord will brief the Defense Business Board on the latest DoD audit and the path forward.

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SmallGovCon

JANUARY 30, 2024

The memorandum , issued through the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), refers to a number of other policy documents. That executive order established a government-wide goal of awarding at least 15 percent of federal contract spending to small disadvantaged businesses in FY 2025. Below, we dive into these new recommendations.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Still, documents obtained by FedScoop through a public records request outline limited funding for SDI and a stretched budget, factors that have led some to think that the project could use more support, even as the FAA pursues other strategies to mitigate the impact of commercial launches.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 14, 2024

Hilary Tam, AWS principal sustainability transformation lead, noted that IDC Europe, a leading research consultancy, identified that 62 percent of large EMEA organisations will spend at least 5 percent of their IT budgets on sustainability actions in 2025.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 11, 2023

That contract is due to expire sometime in 2025. But you look at the senior people in the executive branch who set the budgeting, who set the top line numbers and priorities, and then you look at how they interact with Congress and when. At the same time NIH is starting to gear up for the recovery of its I.T.

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FedScoop

JUNE 6, 2024

Cuts to programs for ocean observation, weather research, and staffing for the National Weather Service were a focus for House lawmakers at a hearing this week on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget request. NOAA’s budget request seeks $6.6 billion in discretionary appropriations, an increase of $224.8

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