White House nominee for Joint Chiefs’ vice chair backs Pentagon budgeting reforms
Marine Corps Gen. Christopher Mahoney also weighed in, carefully, on whether the Navy needs a next-gen fighter jet.
To win the space race with China, the US needs these budgetary reforms
In this op-ed, Olivia Letts of George Mason University discusses the incompatibilities of PPBE with advancing space technologies and how to address these challenges.
The state of play in military space
The military space sector is evolving fast. Get the latest from Space Force and industry officials on what’s next for acquisition, policy and training in a new Breaking Defense eBook.
Pentagon’s budget process needs ‘fundamental restructuring,’ panel says
The almost 400-page PPBE report draws on two years of research and more than 400 interviews, and resulted in 28 recommendations, half of which are denoted as key changes.
‘A crime’: Air Force’s Kendall blasts congressional budget dysfunction
“This is just crazy,” agreed Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante.
‘Wake up call’: Panel identifies 5 ‘key’ ways Pentagon can reform budget process now
“I think that there's a demand signal for change given what we've seen in Ukraine... and then obviously, everyone has eyes on China,” said commission vice chair Ellen Lord.
To Aid Digital Transformation, Army Eyes ‘One Cloud’ And Faster Acquisition
"The Army in the past has always executed traditional IT in a very decentralized way — we let every command do their own thing," Army CIO Raj Iyer said. "Now, if you look at the requirements for multi-domain operations, that model doesn't work anymore."
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Mattis’ Defense Strategy Raises China To Top Threat; Allies Feature Prominently
UPDATED: Adds Text Of SecDef Mattis’ Speech At SAIS WASHINGTON: The Trump Administration’s first National Defense Strategy is a vigorously and well written document that marks a major shift from the policies of the Obama and Bush Administrations, calling China and Russia the “central challenge” to the United States. The strategy, a late draft of […]