"WASHINGTON - With less than two days left before the US government potentially shuts down, the Department of Defense has issued contingency guidance to the force outlining six priorities and contracting plans. "Activities that are determined not to be excepted, and which cannot be performed by utilizing military personnel in place of furloughed civilian personnel, will be suspended when appropriated funds are no longer available," the document said."
""Civilian personnel, including military technicians, who are not necessary to carry out or support excepted activities, are to be furloughed using lapse in appropriations (often referred to as 'shutdown') procedures and guidance provided by the Office of Personnel Management," the Pentagon guidance said. "Only the minimum number of civilian employees necessary to carry out excepted activities will be excepted from furlough.""
The Department of Defense outlined six priorities and contracting plans to prepare for a potential government shutdown. Activities not designated as excepted and not performable by military personnel will be suspended when appropriated funds lapse. The secretary of defense may designate additional excepted activities. Fiscal 2025 funding expires at midnight Wednesday; without FY26 appropriations or a continuing resolution, the federal government will shut down. Active-duty and federal reserve personnel will continue to report and may perform functions normally done by furloughed civilians. Nonessential civilian personnel will be furloughed, with only minimum staff retained for excepted activities.
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