Public Administration

The federal government first supported a program for energy storage and electric power system technology during the 1970s, before the establishment...

Over the last thirty years, several disciplines and sub-disciplines have emerged to deepen our understanding of public policy. However, this litera...

This book summaries the background, methods, and key findings of the final report produced for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and N...

Coupled with increasing concerns about the environment, the magnitude of federal spending on contracts has prompted numerous questions from Members...

On 1 March 2013, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the President ordered an across-the-board cancellation ...

An other transaction (OT) is a special vehicle used by federal agencies for obtaining or advancing research and development (R&D) or prototyp...

The Department of Defense (DOD) supply chain is vulnerable to the risk of counterfeit parts, which have the potential to delay missions and ultimat...

Public administration can be broadly described as the development, implementation and study of branches of government policy. The pursuit of the pu...

Threats to federal information technology (IT) infrastructure and systems continue to grow in number and sophistication. The ability to make federa...

Sequestration is a process of automatic, largely across-the-board spending reductions to meet or enforce certain budget policy goals. In the 1990s,...

Budgeting for the federal government is an enormously complex process. It entails dozens of sub-processes, countless rules and procedures, the effo...

The federal government spends billons of dollars on information technology (IT) projects each year. Consequently, it is important that projects be ...

Enacted on 1 August 2011, the Budget Control Act (BCA) as amended sets limits on defense spending between FY2012 and FY2021 that are playing a sign...

In fiscal year 2013, the federal government obligated over $555 billion for grants. Effective oversight of internal controls is important for provi...

In some manner, shape, or form, every nation state in the international system has a national security strategy or strategies. These strategies are...