Anticipation is growing as the Trump administration gears up to release a proposed fiscal 2018 budget on May 23. The budget is expected to show balance within 10 years, in part through sweeping cuts to mandatory spending and robust growth estimates connected to a new plan to cut taxes. With far reaching consequences across industries and agencies, Bloomberg Government experts will break down the president’s budget request on May 24.

The top 20 federal contracts total around $200 billion in potential value, according to Bloomberg Government analysis. With all RFPs likely to be issued before close of fiscal 2017, which agencies have the most lucrative deals? Which contracts are recompetes? How many solicitations will be available for IT, professional services, and R&D? Join Bloomberg Government’s deputy director of research, Dan Snyder, for a 30-minute run down of...

Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) is an innovative and cutting edge multi-award contract vehicle focused on delivering superior commercial IT products and product based services for the federal government. NASA SEWP was built from the ground-up with innovation in its DNA. Bloomberg Government and Dcode42 are convening SEWP stakeholders to explore forecasts in innovation and showcase innovative technologies in the area of big dat...

Where’s the budget? While President Trump missed the statutory deadline in early-February, the White House is expected to send toplinenumbers forthe fiscal 2018 budget to Capitol Hill in mid-March. While it’s unclear how quickly the House and Senate Budget Committees will incorporate President Trump’s proposal into their budget resolutions, it seems likely that the President’s priorities will focus on rewriting the tax...

Employees are often considered a company’s greatest asset. Given increased transparency and access to data, are employees now a company’s greatest threat? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Insider Threat Mitigation Act of 2017 requires DHS to establish a program to prevent and respond to threats posed by employees with access to classified information. Insider threats can include employees and others who unintentionally rele...

In this tense climate, managing supply chain risk is more critical than ever. Supply chain professionals leverage Bloomberg’s transparent data and sophisticated tools to uncover risk and negotiate better positions with suppliers. On March 1st, tune in to see how Bloomberg’s industry-leading platform for news, data, and analytical tools, provides purchasing professionals with the insights needed to deliver cost savings and security...

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...