This will be a year of two budgets, as Congress and the new Trump administration wrap up leftover business for fiscal 2017, which began last October, and run through a full process for fiscal 2018. The fiscal 2017 process was left unfinished last year, with only one of the 12 spending bills signed into law and the rest of the government operating under temporary funding through April 28. The House and Senate didn’t act on a fiscal 2017...

The Trump Administration has landed in Washington and the U.S. defense industry is generally enthusiastic about prospects for increased spending. The costs of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed force structure increases have been estimated at around $16 billion a year, significantly more than the Pentagon’s current plan. The administration will have to choose between competing priorities—nukes vs. conventional arms, terr...

Republicans are promising a burst of legislative activity in 2017, when they’ll take control of both the White House and Congress for the first time in a decade. With almost three weeks of session before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in, repealing Obamacare, rewriting the tax code and blocking environmental and other regulations top the agenda. Join Bloomberg Government experts on January 18 as we review the start of the 115th C...

The top 20 federal contracts total around $220 billion in potential value. Seven of these contracts are held by the largest branch of the U.S. military, the Army. Join Bloomberg Government’s contracts analyst Dan Snyder on December 13th for a 30-minute run down of the top opportunities within the Department of the Army. Topics Logistics Civil Augmentation Program V (LOGCAP V) — LOGCAP V will provide contingency base support for ser...

What will a Trump administration mean for defense spending? A steady state, or a spending spree? Trump is responsible for at least the next four federal budget requests and will have considerable influence on military spending and the defense industry. Join Bloomberg Government analysts to review the budget requirements, priorities, Third Offset and key national security figures influencing direction.Topics: Budget: Near-termAre more increases...

The top 20 federal contracts total around $220 billion in potential value, while a remaining $265 billion are in source selection status waiting final award. Join Bloomberg Government’s contracts analyst Dan Snyder for a 30-minute run down of the top opportunities and trends that exist among federal government contracts. We’ll focus on professional services and IT contracts, as well as trends among the top contracts that remain in...

The lack of adequate cybersecurity is one of the biggest strategic threats to the U.S., according to the Feb. 9, 2016 intelligence assessment. The threat has been persistent for years and isn’t getting smaller, requiring investments across government agencies. Join Bloomberg Government analysts to review the federal cybersecurity market, strategies and processes. TOPICS: The Federal Cybersecurity Market -- What is it? How does Bloomberg...

Services continue to dominate U.S. federal spending, but many of the fastest-growing categories are products, according to the fifth annual BGOV200 Federal Industry Leaders Study. Join Bloomberg Government as we explore trends within the 20 different categories of spending including knowledge-based services, research and development, technology services, drones and land vehicles.

The top 20 federal contracts total more than $225 billion in potential value. Not surprisingly, many of the top opportunities are housed within the Defense Department with contracts including NGEN II, SeaPort-e and IACs—but health IT and professional services contracts top the leader board as well. Join Bloomberg Government’s contracts analyst Dan Snyder for a 30-minute run down of the top opportunities for government contractors.

The federal government’s relationship with technology is a complicated one. Unpacking this contradiction is the focus of Bloomberg Government’s first annual RE/BOOT Conference. We’ll bring together the innovators, the technologists and the policymakers to talk about how they’re navigating these challenges and working to transform government from the inside out, and the outside in.