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May 12, 2014 By AMK

Sequestration will erode innovation at Defense Department, official says

If sequestration continues it will damage weapons systems and erode innovation at the Defense Department, said DoD Deputy Assistant Secretary Elana Broitman during an April 23 panel discussion.

“The sequester cuts are tied to no long-term plan, and, though it’s a truism in the marketplace, we are concerned about enough competition with fewer entities around to fund innovation,” Broitman said at a Bloomberg Government event in Arlington, Va.

If the DoD can’t invest in research and development, it won’t be able to guarantee that it has the best weapons, she said.

“We used to trim things we don’t need. Now we’re choosing between two good things,” Broitman said.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/sequestration-will-erode-innovation-defense-department-official-says/2014-04-28

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Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: BRAC, DoD, innovation, sequestration, spending

May 9, 2014 By AMK

Pentagon deputy: Defense contracting choices will only get tougher

Sequestration is forcing the Defense Department to “literally build two budgets” and, if the automatic cuts are continued, will damage the quality of U.S. weapons systems and deter innovation, a top Pentagon acquisition official said last Wednesday (Apr. 23, 2014).

Elana Broitman, deputy assistant Defense secretary for manufacturing and industrial base policy, said, “The sequester cuts are tied to no long-term plan, and, though it’s a truism in the marketplace, we are concerned about [having] enough competition with fewer entities around to fund innovation.”

Broitman spoke at a panel discussion at Arlington, Va.,’s Artisphere organized by Bloomberg Government, whose newly released annual study of the 200 top federal contractors noted that Defense Department contract spending is down by 15 percent. “We used to trim things we don’t need,” Broitman said, “now we’re choosing between two good things.” She also cited risks if the U.S. government does not invest in the industrial base and research and development, saying. , “We can no longer guarantee for adversaries and allies that our products are the best.”

A former aide to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., Broitman also expressed regret that Congress has rejected the Obama administration’s request for another round of the Base Closing and Realignment Commission. “There’s only so many costs we can swallow if we want our troops well trained,” she said. “We can’t afford every installation where they may be housed.”

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/contracting/2014/04/pentagon-deputy-defense-contracting-choices-will-only-get-tougher/83155/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: BRAC, budget, budget cuts, competition, DoD, industrial base, sequestration, spending

April 21, 2014 By AMK

DoD plots third chapter in Better Buying Power initiative

Nothing is on paper yet, but the Defense Department says it is in the very early stages of creating a “3.0” version of its ongoing Better Buying Power initiative.

The newest edition will focus on making sure the military doesn’t fall behind in technological superiority.

Frank Kendall, the undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said the next edition of the Pentagon’s effort to improve its acquisition system will zero in on an issue that he has become increasingly worried about as sequestration-level budgets take a toll on DoD’s investments in research and development.

While he emphasized that Better Buying Power 3.0 still is in the idea stage, he said it will revolve around the notion that DoD can’t afford to put technology advances on hold just because research dollars are shrinking.

“The first iteration was about the rules. The second one was about creating tools to help people think and do a better job of setting up business deals and executing them. The third is probably going to be about innovation and how we move things more rapidly and more effectively into the hands of warfighters,” he said Tuesday (Apr. 8, 2014) at the 15th annual Science and Engineering Technology Conference sponsored by the National Defense Industrial Association in College Park, Md.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/65/3599360/DoD-plots-third-chapter-in-Better-Buying-Power-initiative- 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition strategy, Better Buying Power, budget cuts, DARPA, DFARS, DoD, DoD 5000.02, FAR, innovation, research, sequestration, technology

March 10, 2014 By AMK

Air Force bets $41 billion on sequestration

Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has placed a $41 billion bet that Congress will ease off on the mandatory spending cuts in the sequester process and also go along with a White House proposal to raise taxes.

“We will be working hard to convince Congress that there’s too much risk” to the Air Force and the nation if the $41 billion in additional funding is rejected, James said last week at a defense issues forum.

In offering the Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget plan last week, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel also put forward a five-year projection calling on Congress to boost military spending by $115 billion through sequester relief.

Hagel is counting on an additional $26 billion for defense from the total $56 billion Growth and Opportunity Fund that President Obama plans to outline Tuesday in the White House budget plan.

The $56 billion for the Fund would come from a combination of tax increases and offset spending, White House officials.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.dodbuzz.com/2014/03/03/air-force-bets-41-billion-on-sequestration/ 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Air Force, budget cuts, DoD, sequestration, spending

February 19, 2014 By AMK

OMB says budget deal means no further sequester cuts in FY14

Federal agencies will not face any additional sequester-related spending cuts for fiscal 2014 following passage of December’s bipartisan budget deal, the Office of Management and Budget confirmed in a report this month.

Under the deal, Congress agreed to partially roll back discretionary spending reductions previously mandated in 2011, leaving total defense spending—not counting funding for the Afghanistan war—at $520.5 billion and total spending on other programs at $491.8 billion this year. Lawmakers also reworked the caps for next year to keep overall discretionary spending at about the same benchmark; for 2015, the caps on security and non-security spending are $521.3 billion and $492.4 billion respectively, according to the OMB report.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20140217/MGMT05/302170012/1001 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: budget, budget cuts, OMB, sequestration

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