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As the push to resolve the impasse over a deficit deal falters, it has become clear that the disagreements are not in fact over dollars and cents, but are instead a broader chasm between the Republicans and the Democrats over the size and role of government.

On May 31, 2011, the Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) issued a lengthy interim rule on green procurement in response to President Obama's 2009 executive order on green manag

In December of 2010, during the Christmas holiday break, a seemingly small change to the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, Section 824 was made that has significant consequences for 10 U.S.C. 2320, Rights in Technical Data.  This revision will result in unlimited rights to technical data by the government that had previously been considered protected. 

On Monday night May 16 in a speech at the Economic Club in New York City, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, attempted to reassure Wall Street that Republicans were serious about confronting the country's deficit problems responsibly.

Apparently the new interim rule change proposed by the Department of Defense (DoD), the General Services Administration (GSA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on March 16, 2011, for sole source contracts did not go far enough to satisfy Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., chairwoman of the Senate Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight.

Last week, the Secretary of Defense issued a Memorandum detailing the recommendations resulting from study groups commissioned in August of 2010, to develop initiatives designed to reduce duplication, overhead and excess, and instill a culture of savings and cost accountability across the Department of Defense.  As a result of these study groups, numerous cost saving measures are planned.