A savvy DC veteran, Sec. Christine Wormuth didn’t outright call for Congress to go above the budget caps, but, she said, “given that we want to make sure that we are not only able to support Ukraine but that we also replenish our own stocks … a supplemental, I think, would be very helpful.”
Congress must stop shortchanging the Army budget, especially modernization, so it can play its proper role in the Indo-Pacific and worldwide, writes the former chief of US Army Pacific.
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
The topline is an increase of $45 billion over what Biden’s budget requested.
In somewhat of a surprise, the HASC provision to force the Space Force to create a Space National Guard was stripped from the bill in the negotiations between the two sides of Capitol Hill.
“The concern I would have would be on our ability to deliver on a collaborative combat aircraft system to complement [Next Generation Air Dominance],” said Air Force acquisition executive Andrew Hunter. “It would limit our ability to dedicate people and resources to an aggressive effort to field that capability.”
"Key for us is allowing on-ramps, allowing for some smaller launches to have a chance," a senior Space Force official told Breaking Defense, in order to avoid billion-dollar "Titan-era prices."
Do more with less: streamline workflows, reduce duplication, invest upfront to save long-term.
"The Space Force's ambitious plans for new architectures, programs, and mission areas, do not appear to be backed up with credible budget projections in the outyears to actually deliver these capabilities," House defense appropriators chide in report language accompanying their FY23 spending bill.
Staffers briefing reporters ahead of the release emphasized a focus on the health of the munitions industrial base.
The Senate Armed Services Committee's proposed topline figure would increase the already-historic Pentagon spending plan proposed by the Biden administration.
The Space Force doesn't fare too badly under the House Appropriations defense subcommittee's draft released today — getting a slight bump up from its procurement request but taking a cut in RTD&E.
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
The Missile Defense Agency's request for funds above the 2023 budget for the Glide Phase Interceptor will go towards reducing risks for critical technologies, including seekers, propulsion systems and thermal protection, says Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill.
A study by the Space Warfighting Analysis Center that determined a multi-layered network of satellites in Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO), highly-elliptical polar orbit, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) is necessary to provide comprehensive ballistic and hypersonic missile warning and tracking.
Lawmakers and taxpayers should know PDI is not reflective of the defense investment to counter the pacing challenge of China, AEI's Elaine McCusker writes.
If inflation trends keep, AEI's John Ferrari says DoD will see buying power plummet even as it spends billions.