Multi-Domain Task Forces Top Army’s $7B Unfunded List
The Army wants $985 million for modernization, from Apache gunships and 8x8 Strykers to safety improvements at ammunition plants. We have the list.
HASC’s Smith Says No To SASC Inhofe’s ‘Skinny’ NDAA
"I am confident we can reconcile our differences,” House Armed Services Committee Adam Smith told Breaking Defense.
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GPS: Still the gold standard in global navigation
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King Blasts DoD Wall Funding, But Smooth Sailing For Air Force, Army Secretaries
"I believe we need the Space Force, in fact, in my opinion, a domain-specific service to organize, train, and equip space forces is overdue," Air Force Secretary nominee Barbara Barrett said.
SecDef Esper OKs $3.6 Billion Of DoD $$ For Trump’s Border Wall
Money for the Trump Administration's border wall is going to come from DoD construction projects overseas, followed by domestic accounts. Some lawmakers are not happy.
2020 Budget: Army Shifts $31B To Modernization, Readiness
That's $6 billion more than previously announced -- but it all comes at the cost of almost 200 cut, cancelled, or slowed-down programs, each with backers in Congress.
$49M For Multi-Domain Wargames Tops PACOM Wishlist
WASHINGTON: “To counter our near-peer adversaries” — read Russia and China — US Pacific Command wants $530 million of unfunded priorities that didn’t fit in the 2018 budget request, from better bases to more torpedoes. The top item: $49 million more for “multi-domain battle exercises,” wargames testing a new Army-led concept for future warfare against […]
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Aircraft Dominate Navy Unfunded List; Still No New Ships
WASHINGTON: New aircraft make up half the Navy’s $5.3 billion unfunded requirements list of items that didn’t fit in the 2018 budget request. But while the wishlist includes several upgrades to existing vessels, as well as new landing craft and barges, it doesn’t ask for any new warships. Instead of ships, the unfunded requirements list prioritizes […]
Army Budget Boss: Threats, Uncertainty Reign
ARLINGTON: No one knows what the 2016 budget is really going to be. In fact, no one can even plan properly for what it might be, the highest-ranking budgeteer in Army uniform made clear this morning. The uncertainty is coming at the Pentagon from two sides at the same time. On the demand side, there’s […]
House Dems Say Sequester $10 Billion Worse Than OMB Estimate
[updated 3:45 pm with Todd Harrison’s analysis] CAPITOL HILL: Last month’s congressionally mandated OMB report on the impact of sequestration omitted an obscure provision that would slice another $10.1 billion from Defense Department programs in 2013. Because of that the Pentagon would have to cut $60.6 billion instead of $50.5 billion, a 20 percent increase. […]
Army Chief Wants Grey Eagle Drones In All Divisions, But Can’t Buy More
LAS VEGAS: As the Army institutionalizes robotic systems that began as ad hoc expedients for Iraq and Afghanistan, the Chief of Staff wants drones in every combat aviation brigade and every division — even at the price of spreading them thinner across the force. The Army’s first company of Grey Eagle UAVs, a variant of […]
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