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October 28, 2013 By AMK

DoD gears up for Round 2 of sequestration

Opponents of last year’s across-the-board spending cuts are hoping — perhaps  quixotically — that sequestration’s second verse won’t be the same as its  first.

Now that a bipartisan deal has ended the government shutdown, the resulting  budget conference committee is the new best hope for turning off the cuts that  have hit the Pentagon and defense industry hard and threaten to get even worse.

But even though the latest chapter in Washington gridlock is over, very little has actually changed.

“It’s important to note that Congress did not remove the shadow of  uncertainty that has been cast over this department and our government much of  this year,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday during a press briefing  at the Pentagon.

“The damaging cuts of sequestration remain the law of the land,” he said. “In  the months ahead, Congress will have an opportunity to remove this shadow of  uncertainty as they work to craft a balanced, long-term spending bill.”

Hagel urged lawmakers to give the Defense Department and its vast workforce stability and predictability after the ringer they’ve been through, including  sequestration furloughs over the summer and then shutdown furloughs more  recently.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/dod-gears-up-for-round-2-of-sequestration-98577.html 

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition workforce, Budget Control Act, budget cuts, deficit, discretionery spending, DoD, furlough, reductions in force, RIF, sequestration, spending, spending controls

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