Office of Management and Budget

House Intel Committee props up FY26 funding for NRO commercial imagery buys

The bill also directs the Director of National Intelligence to appoint a single official to oversee the acquisition of commercially available information by all IC agencies.

Navy asking Congress for $5.7B in emergency submarine funding

Most of the money would shore up buys for three Virginia-class subs, while some funding would go to help industry improve its productivity.

Signaling China, White House Floats Putting Hypersonic Missiles On Destroyers

"This is a terrible idea for several reasons," Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute said. The oldest ships would need to undergo a service life extension, while the newer ships would have to undergo expensive upgrades for a complex new mission.

Air Force Wants More Time On Space Acquisition Czar

The Air Force and OSD have agreed to transfer the Space Development Agency to the Space Force "around the beginning of 2023," said Shawn Barnes.

HASC’s Langevin Pushes White House Cyber Coordinator, ‘E-Congress’

By pushing work online – and partially paralyzing Congress – COVID-19 has highlighted shortfalls the co-founder of the Cyber Caucus has warned about for 19 years.

The Spectacular & Public Collapse of Navy Force Planning

Planning for a 21st century Navy of unmanned vessels, distributed operations, and great power competition has collapsed. Trapped by a 355-ship force goal, a reduced budget, and a fixed counting methodology, the Navy can’t find a feasible solution to the difficult question of how its forces should be structured. As a result, the Navy postponed […]

While China Spends, Trump Budget Looks Flat For 2021

After three years of budget growth for the Pentagon, the armed services are going to unveil some drastic changes for the 2021 budget.

White House Slashes DoD Budget– Maybe

The White House surprised DoD with a last-minute $33 billion budget trim last week. But it's far from certain that the cuts will outlive months of haggling between the Trump administration, the Pentagon and Congress.

Trump Reverses The Defense Buildup: 2020 Cuts Analysis

Trump's plan would undercut the more expansive National Defense Strategy for "great power competition" that embattled Defense Secretary Jim Mattis rolled out just nine months ago.

BREAKING: Trump Orders DoD To Take Surprise $33B Budget Cut

Trump campaigned on more money for the Pentagon, but his budget director appears to have won the fight for sweeping, across the board cuts to all federal agencies, including the Pentagon.

Pentagon Ramps Up Civilian Hiring; Other Agencies Get Cut

Given the two-year break from sequestration, the Pentagon is hurrying up to hire civilians to push the modernization of the force to head off advances by China and Russia, a new DoD strategy document says.

AIA’s Melcher Hopes Hill Has ‘Moral Courage’ To Fund DoD & Rest Of Budget

WASHINGTON: The federal government needs to spend more money on civilian agencies like the State Department, NASA, and the FAA, not just defense, the aerospace industry’s top lobbyist said today, but there’s no reasoning with a portion of Congress that wants cuts at any cost. “There’s a part of Congress that’s suspicious of everything,” said […]

OMB ‘Supports’ Extra LCS, But Where’s The Money?

UPDATE: Source Says WH Will Fund LCS Add; CRS Naval Expert Comments  CAPITOL HILL: In a startling turnabout, the Trump Administration now “supports” adding a $541 million Littoral Combat Ship to yesterday’s 2018 budget request, Navy officials told Congress this afternoon. What, exactly, does that mean? The Navy doesn’t know. Minutes before Navy witnesses were to testify […]

Mattis Puts Readiness First, Modernization Later In Budget

WASHINGTON: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has laid out a measured and cautious spending plan that puts near-term readiness needs first in his first budget guidance memo. The memo, out this morning, largely defers major equipment modernization until 2019 and limits increases in the size of the force to “the maximum responsible rate” (emphasis ours). So, […]