Budget deadlines, shutdowns, agency decisions and personnel moves that touch defense and veterans programs.
Defense appropriations for fiscal 2027 entered the fall on a stopgap: House lawmakers advanced a continuing resolution on September 1, 2026, following the Senate, extending funding to December 11 and holding the Pentagon at fiscal 2026 levels, per published coverage of the vote. The full-year…
Federal IT modernization is caught between two facts: the Government Accountability Office reported in July 2025 that the 11 most critical federal legacy systems are up to 60 years old and mostly lack modernization plans; for fiscal 2027, the White House proposes no new Technology Modernization…
Federal workforce policy changed twice in mid-2026 on the public record: Executive Order 14410 of June 3, 2026 created Schedule Policy/Career in the excepted service, and a Merit Systems Protection Board final rule published September 3, 2026 ended the Board's deference to agency penalty choices…
The Pentagon has reviewed only 4 of its 27 defense agencies and DOD field activities since 2018 and never reported the results to Congress, according to a Government Accountability Office report dated September 3, 2026. GAO issued four open recommendations and said the department provided no…
Executive Order 14423, signed August 28, 2026, establishes a Presidential Commission on the United States Space Academy, chaired by the NASA Administrator and directed to report to the President within 120 days, per the Federal Register text published September 3, 2026. The order creates a…
The Government Accountability Office reported on August 6, 2026 that the Department of Government Efficiency's Wall of Receipts claimed $110 billion in savings across contracts, grants, and leases as of July 7, 2026, but that "some savings estimates are incorrect or lack supporting evidence,"…