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Installation Maintenance: Better Information on Risks and Challenges Needed to Improve Oversight of DOD Facility Conditions
What GAO Found The Department of Defense (DOD) does not request full funding of identified needs for installation maintenance or major improvement projects for facilities. This shortage has led to an estimated $285 billion of maintenance backlogs in fiscal year 2025. Due to competing budget priorities, DOD set a goal to fund 90 percent of…
Export-Import Bank: Monitoring of Exports with Dual Military and Civilian Uses as of 2026
What GAO Found As of August 2026, EXIM was not monitoring the end use of any dual-use export because all such transactions had been repaid in full. EXIM did not finance any new exports under its dual-use authority in fiscal year 2025, according to EXIM authorization data and EXIM officials. Why GAO Did This Study…
Watchdog data shows higher WA child welfare deaths than previously reported
Deaths and serious injuries of children involved with Washington’s child welfare system last year were even higher than record levels the state previously reported, according to new data. In 2025, 35 children died and 49 more nearly died either from abuse, neglect and other maltreatment, or amid these concerns, after having some connection to the…
R&D Spending at Federally Funded R&D Centers Holds Steady in FY 2025
Federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) in the United States enable federal agencies to meet their research and development (R&D) needs through government-owned, contractor-operated research centers. These centers provide capabilities that cannot be met as effectively through other resources. The nation’s 41 FFRDCs spent $31.8 billion on R&D in FY 2025, an increase of…
FFRDC Research and Development Survey2025
These data tables provide data on research and development (R&D) expenditures for federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs). Expenditures data are displayed for individually named FFRDCs, by source of funding and type of R&D. Data are from the FY 2025 FFRDC Research and Development Survey, conducted by the National Center for Science and Engineering…
US national debt has reached $40 trillion for the first time | DW News
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Court rebuffs attempt to ax ballot statement on WA income tax measure’s budget effects
A citizen activist lost his bid Thursday to keep a one-sentence statement off ballots that summarizes how an initiative to repeal Washington’s new income tax on high earners would affect the state budget. State Supreme Court Commissioner Michael Johnston denied Arthur West’s request for a preliminary injunction to block a state law requiring inclusion of…
Russia is launching ballistic missiles as Ukraine lacks interceptors to protect itself
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Oregon weighs enrollment caps, paying for claims as double-digit insurance hikes set for 2027
Oregon insurance regulators have approved premium hikes that could cost individuals and small businesses that buy health insurance through the state marketplace dozens of more dollars per month and are weighing policy changes that would limit availability. State officials with the Division of Financial Regulation in a news release this week framed the nearly 22%…
Heavy rains trigger floods and landslides in Peru | DW News
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Corporate and tech giants fuel record spending on midterms
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The oysters New York eats help restore the city’s reefs
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