From Hegseth to the Hill, defense budget talk at the Reagan National Defense Forum
Catch up on highlights from the high-powered event in California.
Congress eyes $8B boost over Trump’s Pentagon budget in NDAA
Rep. Adam Smith, the House Armed Services Committee's ranking Democrat, said Congress is aiming to release a compromise defense authorization bill in the next 24 hours.
Modern Tech in Indo-Pacific Operations
Explore how networked warfare, AI, and 3D-printed drones are reshaping US Indo-Pacific strategy.
Army leaders need to show their ‘homework’ for transformation plans, lawmakers say
“You chose to give us a plan with few details, with no budgeting and a failure to answer a lot of our questions, and now [I’m] hearing about how this plan will be implemented from my own constituents, not from leadership,” said Rep. Eric Sorensen.
HASC leaders turn up heat on Space Force leadership over acquisition plans
In a new letter obtained by Breaking Defense, the top two HASC members write to Gen. Saltzman that "We fear a divide that elevates operators at the detriment to other core functions of the Space Force will have negative impacts, potentially not immediately, but as we look to 2030 and beyond."
NATO plans first commercial space strategy to spur tech innovation
On the cusp of NATO's 75th Anniversary Summit, the House Armed Services Committee sent a first-ever international delegation focused on space security to Europe.
House narrowly passes defense policy bill 219-210, setting up clashes with Senate Dems
Conservative lawmakers successfully added numerous riders into the final legislation on Thursday and Friday, sinking most Democratic support.
The questions that warfighters ask the most are now answered with data analytics
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
Nukes, helos and amphibs: House authorizers pass their $874B policy bill 58-1
With a GOP-controlled House and a Democrat-controlled Senate, nothing in the bill is final until the last minute conference negotiations are completed, but here are the key issues to watch.