Buried within the Navy’s fiscal 2022 shipbuilding plan is a major disruption of the amphibious fleet and its industrial base. The Navy will build the Light Amphibious Ships (LAWs) it wants, but there’s a trade-off. The number of large amphibious ships will decline by five to nine — 15% to 27%. Marines and others had […]
Rep. Langevin criticized the 2022 budget overview for its brevity, opacity, and appearance as "nearly a carbon copy" of the 2021 document. "If DoD were a high school student, I would have called [the 2022 budget overview] plagiarism."
The Democrats’ draft bill trims military personnel and R&D to add money for procurement.
"The Department of Defense officially recognizes five domains of warfare," Rep. Langevin said. "For four of those domains, the senior civilian is a service secretary. Cyber has a deputy assistant secretary, which is four rungs lower than the other warfighting domains. Why does this make sense?"
"These robust information-sharing operations are just one part of our 'defend forward' strategy — where we see what our adversaries are doing and share that information with our partners in an effort to better bolster both our homeland defenses."
Most observers had expected an increase in the Navy's shipbuilding accounts with this budget, especially after the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, said that, even as an Army general, he would support budget increases for the Navy and Air Force in light of the Chinese threat. But this budget decommissions 12 ships and buys relatively few replacements.
Bill Greenwalt argues the US needs to increase its current level of defense spending by 3% to 5% a year in real terms, because China, our principal geostrategic competitor, is already outspending us on defense and time is not on our side. Greenwalt comes to this conclusion by claiming that in estimating the size of […]
"From the DoD's perspective, they're highly dependent on [Asia] for fabrication and packaging [of chips]," Hudson Institute's Bryan Clark tells Breaking Defense. This has led to DoD calls to address a "fragile and threatened" chip supply chain.
The Navy also asks for five additional F-35C fighters, an E-2D Hawkeye and 4 CMV-22s.
Some $2.7 billion goes to network upgrades, more than any other Army priority area, according to acting acquisition chief Doug Bush.
The single biggest increase in proposed year-over-year cyber funding appears to be for cryptology, and the budget includes a new line item for zero-trust architectures.
The funds will support potential new space missions such as re-fueling satellites on orbit.
“The President’s Defense Budget Request is an outline and a starting point,” emphasizes Sen. Jack Reed, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The budget requests funding for four new teams for the Cyber Mission Force. Those teams will support CYBERCOM operations and provide cyber support for space operations.