As Pentagon awaits supplemental dollars, its operational funding is $2B in the hole
The House is teeing up a series of votes this weekend on separate supplemental spending bills for Israel, Taiwan and Ukraine.
SecDef Austin in favor of killing DoD’s wish-list mandate
Austin’s comments come just hours after it was reported that DoD Comptroller Michael McCord asked lawmakers in a letter to reconsider the unfunded priorities mandate.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
McCusker May Stay Acting DoD Comptroller Til October
McCusker will be able to continue serving in an acting capacity for another seven months, Pentagon spokesman Chris Sherwood confirmed Tuesday. The 210-day clock “began when the nomination was withdrawn.”
DoD AUDIT: Air Force Finds Mystery Motors, Other Highlights
After waiting almost three decades to audit itself, the Pentagon still failed miserably in its first attempt. Despite top officials brushing the failure off an an expected learning experience, real questions remain over whether it can fix itself.
The Pentagon’s First-Ever Audit: A Big Disappointment?
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is preparing to release its first-ever audit as soon as this week, making it the last federal agency to complete a top-to-bottom scrubbing of its processes, business practices and finances. The fallout is likely to be messy. While expectations have built over the years that the audit will uncover large savings and […]
Why DoD’s Year-End Spending Needs to Change
As the end of the fiscal year approaches at the Department of Defense (DoD), teams at most defense organizations are working hard to spend all the funds in the Pentagon’s day-to-day operating budgets, which are available for use only during the ourrent fiscal year. To do otherwise, they fear, would suggest that not all available funds […]
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Turning R&D into reality to meet the challenges of the modern battlefield
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
Memos, Vetos, Spending And Those Elections
WASHINGTON: Congress has returned after a week of uncommonly beautiful weather for Washington in late August. But, with all the other miseries that Congress has wrought upon the American people in the last few years, lawmakers appear to have brought the hot and muggy weather back with them. What else might they have brought back? Could […]
Air Force Modernization On The Table: CSAF Gen. Welsh
WASHINGTON: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh made clear today that, while his service will make its arguments for modernization programs such as the JSTARS replacement, F-35 and Long Range Strike Bomber, the Defense Secretary and the combatant commanders will make the final decisions. The military’s latest and highest profile program, the Long Range Strike […]
Psst, Congress: You Don’t Really Know Sequestration’s Bite
After four months, we still know precious little about how sequestration — or automatic budget cuts in the name of debt reduction — is being implemented or what Pentagon priorities are most affected. But one important detail has become clear after the Pentagon recently released two reports. Leaders are trying to navigate near-term fiscal uncertainty, […]
Pentagon ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ It Will Balance Books by 2017…
Washington: Sometimes the Pentagon is just too easy to make fun of. While it is filled with Americans good and true who work their rear ends off to help keep us safe, it also has very little idea where the hundreds of billions that it gets from Congress is going. “I’m cautiously optimistic [they can […]
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How TAK gives the US military an advantage at the Edge
“Tactical operating system” for warfighters has evolved to provide more situational awareness of the battlefield.