Resources:
2023 DoD Issue Papers
Defense Health Agency Transfer Resources
Budget News & Resources
- Opinion: How the Pentagon could spend more smartly at a critical time (The Washington Post)
- Weapons contractors hitting Department of Defense with inflated prices for planes, submarines, missiles (CBS)
- Fiscal 2024 House Appropriations Defense Report
Flyers
- DoD Legislative Update Flyer
- DEFCON Legislative Strategic Plan Flyer
- DoD Personnel Caps Flyer
- Defense Primer: The NDAA Process
- Defense Primer: Navigating the NDAA
- Defense Spending by State - Fiscal Year 2021
AFGE Letters
- AFGE Letter to Subcommittee Defense Appropriations Committee
- AFGE Letter to Defense Secretary on Organic Industrial Base
- AFGE Local 1263 Public Comments to Defense Business Board
- AFGE Letter to Defense Business Board on Civilian Management
- Letter to Appropriations Committees on Calvert Workforce Proposals
- AFGE Rebuttal of Army Future's Command Demo Project
- AFGE Letter to Senate on Floor Amendments to NDAA (10/12/22)
- AFGE Pre-Conference NDAA Letter (9/16/22)
- AFGE Pre-Conference NDAA Letter (8/18/22)
- NDAA Statement of Administration Policy
- NDAA House Floor Amendment Tracker
- FY 2023 NDAA July 13, 2022 Letter to House Members
- FY 2023 NDAA July 12, 2022 Letter to House Rules Committee
- FY 2023 NDAA July 7, 2022 Letter to House Rules Committee
- FY 2023 NDAA HASC 'Markup Letter'
- Letter to Defense Business Board
- FY 2023 Civilian Workforce
- FSGG Appropriations FY 2023
- FY2023 Defense Appropriations Member Request Letter
- DoD State of Competition Letter
- 2023 NDAA Priorities Letter
- Letter to Dep Sec Hicks on PPBE Reforms
- Enclosure #1: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta Letter to House Armed Services Chair and Ranking Member, December 20, 2011
- Enclosure #2: Charts from Defense Business Board: “Fully Burdened and Lifecycle Costs of the Workforce,” (DBB FY 18-01)
- Enclosure #3: Army Testimony before Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: “On Contractors: How Much Are They Costing the Government?” (March 29, 2012)
- Letter to House Oversight and Reform Leaders on TransDigm
- Letter to Asst Sec Skelly on Readiness
- Identifying Contributions of DOD’s Civilian Workforce to Readiness
- Letter to Senate Armed Services Committee from AFGE National President Kelley
- 2022 NDAA Priorities Letter
- Letter #1 to Sec. Hicks from AFGE National President Kelley
- Letter #2 to Sec. Hicks from AFGE National President Kelley
Join the Townhall Project
Agency Instruction
Congressional Committee Hearings & Testimony
- House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee
- Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee
- House Armed Services Committee
- Senate Armed Services Committee
- Feb. 8, 2022 - Military Personnel Talent Management Modernization and the Effects of Legacy Policies
Contact Us
Please contact the following AFGE staff for all questions related to this agency’s legislative and political activity:
District
To contact your District’s Legislative Political Organizer click here.
National Contacts
- Anthony Livingston - [email protected] (DoD Legislative and Political Organizer)
- Michael Pazder – [email protected] (DEFCON attorney)
- Frank Fragomene - [email protected] (Labor Relations Specialist, Field Services & Education Department)
- Octavia Hall – [email protected] (DoD Labor Relations Specialist, Field Services and Education Department)
- Tim Kauffman – [email protected] (Communications Specialist, Communications Department)
- Keith Abouchar – [email protected] (Legislative Representative)
- Sergio Espinosa - [email protected] (Legislative Representative)
- Tracie St. John - [email protected](Affiliate Liaison)
Steering Group Committee Leads
- Awards: Carolyn Chando - [email protected]
- Communications: Kellie Mersereau-Hummel - [email protected]
- Legislative: Brandon Hartzog - [email protected]
- Organizing: Mike Ferguson - [email protected]
- Representation: Christine Lauer - [email protected]
- Training: Denise Nemeth-Greenleaf - [email protected]
