“The makeup of Congress, and specifically the makeup of the House, I think will actually matter much more to the future of the defense budget than whoever the president is,” said Todd Harrison of AEI.
By Valerie InsinnaEnabling seamless operations across land, air, sea, space, and cyber
The real advantage comes when legacy, new, next generation and cutting-edge systems can work together in the battlespace.
“The Space Force is not growing in priority as it had been in previous years. The priority is shifting more towards the the Air Force and the Navy in the budget,” said Todd Harrison, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
By Theresa Hitchens
“It looks like the Army’s going to take the lion’s share of the cuts,” possibly losing a tank brigade, warned Texas Republican John Carter.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. and Paul McLeary
“What happens to the funds that were authorized and appropriated by Congress for the NSpC?,” a former space official wonders.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The last thing Congress intended when creating the Space Force was to end up with four different space forces,” says CSIS’s Todd Harrison in a new analysis promoting a roles and missions review.
By Theresa Hitchens
“The business case is a naïve bet on out-year operating cost savings – that’s an act the Hill has seen before, and it never pays off,” independent analyst Rebecca Grant says of the Digital Century Series concept.
By Theresa Hitchens
Tech Insight: Anti-Jam systems to protect the tactical edge
Maintaining position and time for air and ground platforms is the key to controlling battlespace contested by electronic warfare.
“Gen. Brown” – the Air Force Chief of Staff – “and I are both committed to making this happen,” Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville tells Breaking Defense. “It starts at the top.”
By Theresa Hitchens
“I think the budget comes down sooner rather than later,” Mackenzie Eaglen, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former congressional staffer, said today.
By Theresa Hitchens
While service in-fighting for budget share is a perennial fact of political life, this year’s version resembles the fictional, to-the-death “Hunger Games,” as all the services struggle with an essentially flat 2021 DoD top line and a mandate to shift gears away from fighting against low-level insurgencies toward global competition with Russia and China.
By Theresa Hitchens
If you count next year’s budget, the president will be actually selling himself short. But his other superlatives are not justified.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
SASC wants the Air Force and DoD “to come back to the oversight committee every single month” to explain how they are standing up the new Space Force — if it is finally approved by Congress.
By Theresa Hitchens
CSIS’s Todd Harrison, who supports the proposal, says his odds on the Space Force being fully approved by Congress this year are currently “slightly less than 50 percent.”
By Theresa Hitchens
US GSSAP satellites moved to within 10 kilometers of five Russian GEO-based satellites between 2016 and 2018, new Russian space observation data shows.
By Theresa Hitchens
In this op-ed, Todd Harrison dives into what the Space Forces needs in the 2024 NDAA, and what it doesn’t, to continue its maturing as the newest military service.
By Todd Harrison