Forbes: DoD Budget Should Rise As Threats Do, Budget Deal Be Damned

Forbes: DoD Budget Should Rise As Threats Do, Budget Deal Be Damned
Forbes: DoD Budget Should Rise As Threats Do, Budget Deal Be Damned

WASHINGTON: With the House Armed Services Committee marking up its annual defense bill next week, the outspoken chairman of HASC’s seapower subcommittee told Breaking Defense he wants to undo last year’s budget deal — which he opposed and which drops Pentagon spending in 2017 — to get more dollars for defense. That’s political heavy lifting, I told Forbes. House speaker…

HASC Seapower OKs New Carrier $, Boosts Oversight; CNO Replies

HASC Seapower OKs New Carrier $, Boosts Oversight; CNO Replies
HASC Seapower OKs New Carrier $, Boosts Oversight; CNO Replies

[updated with Adm. Greenert comment] House Armed Services seapower chairman Randy Forbes promised a “rebirth” of oversight in my interview with him last week, and he makes a down payment on that in his subcommittee’s markup of the defense bill. It includes a host of new reporting and certification requirements. Top of the deck comes the…