Any new administration comes into Washington claiming that they will work to end the problems with the U.S. Federal budget. We will balance it and end wasteful spending and limit earmarks and so on. Obama was no different then any other. It is a sensible platform to run on as nobody likes fraud, waste and abuse but as has been illustrated many times in the past one person’s waste is...
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September 2009
The third attempt to procure a new aerial tanker for the U.S. Air Force began on Friday and is already off to a rocky beginning. The Air Force released the draft Request for Proposal (RFP) on Friday the 25th after briefing Congress and the press on Thursday. It is expected that the same two companies, Boeing and Northrop Grumman with EADS, will bid this time around as the last time. There are...
The “Stimulus” bill contains money for lots of discrete different things. Such as the including the $4 billion as reported on yesterday for broadband expansion. There is also $17 billion or so set aside to stimulate the use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) by providing money to doctors to adopt the use of this software. EHR software has seen significant investment from various...
As part of the “Stimulus” bill or the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) signed by President Obama in March was a provision to set aside about $4 billion to aid in expanding broadband coverage. Part of this is also to be used in especially low served rural areas. There has been a scramble of different companies applying for this money to the tune of over seven times the...
On Friday the 25th the U.S. Air Force posted the draft Request for Proposals (RFP) for the new KC-X aerial tanker. This will be the third attempt since 2001 to begin buying aircraft to replace the KC-135 fleet that has served since the 1950’s. The full RFP may be found here at FedBizOpps.gov. This initial RFP is for 179 aircraft with two further batches that might not be the same...
The Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress have begun the process of ramping down the number of contractors working for the Government. This is being done in two ways. First the Department of Defense especially is “insourcing” where jobs currently filled by contractors will be replaced with civil servants. Second is that Congress has ended the practice for now of using...
The U.S. Air Force last year awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman and EADS over Boeing to provide the next generation aerial tanker. This KC-X contract would be worth several billion dollars to the winner as the Air Force required several hundred of the aircraft to replace the aging KC-135 and KC-10 fleet. Unfortunately for the two companies Boeing was able to overturn the award on protest...
Like the Air Force at the beginning of the month of September somehow the Navy’s planning documents for the 2011 and Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) made it out into the public. This service plans about a 4.5 percent cut overall which reduces each year quite a bit and has made the Service cut back on a great deal of procurements. Unlike the Air Force’s plans to cut some major...
President Obama decided to end the United States’ plan to install a ground based missile defense system in Eastern Europe. The plan was to place a similar system as that currently based in Alaska with missiles at one site and a variety of high powered search and track radars at others. In this case the missiles would have been in Poland and the main radar in the Czech Republic. The...
The United States Congress is supposed to pass the spending bills for each year by the first day of the Fiscal Year. This is the 1st of October. In the last thirty years or so Congress has most often failed to meet this goal. That delay makes it hard for the Departments and Agencies to begin implementing their budgets and spending plan for the year. What Congress may do is pass a Continuing...
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