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Yesterday, the House and Senate Appropriations Committees unveiled an omnibus appropriations bill for Fiscal Year (FY) 2014.聽 Their late nights of negotiations have resulted in a bill that will keep the government operating for the rest of the fiscal year, providing businesses and U.S. citizens with fiscal certainty that essential services and policies will continue apace and without interruption through [...]
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There has been a lot of debate in the media recently about who or what is to blame for the Healthcare.gov failure. The saying 鈥渟uccess has many fathers, but failure is an orphan鈥� comes to mind. Practically everyone in government and the private sector with a role in Healthcare.gov has been under the media鈥檚 microscope. 聽The media鈥檚 finger-pointing aside, the fact is that no one individual or office [...]
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The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) is one of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa鈥檚 major pieces of legislation this year.聽 The bill is designed to bring greater efficiency and technology into the federal acquisition system, and he should be commended for taking on the daunting task of acquisition reform. Originally introduced earlier [...]
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