Shutdown avoided for now, but Ukraine money teed up for next fight
Congress reached a last minute agreement Saturday in order to keep the government open through mid-November.
Government shutdown: How it could impact the military, civilians and defense industry
Bill LaPlante, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer, noted that China doesn't have to deal with this kind of budget chaos. “We can teach them how to do that. That would be helpful,” he said.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
Why the budget deal is good news for defense — with one key exception
AEI's Elaine McCusker, former Pentagon comptroller, argues the Biden-McCarthy compromise is a positive sign, but there's work to be done.
Don’t Retire U-2, Again! Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Schiff Urge Air Force To Postpone
WASHINGTON: Either Lockheed Martin’s legendary U-2 spy plane does things that Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk drone can’t, or it doesn’t. If the U-2 doesn’t, then, the Air Force argues, it should be retired by 2019. After several flip flops in recent years, that is the service’s current position: We need to retire the U-2 because we’re upgrading the […]
McCarthy’s Exit: Budget Deal Or Disaster?
Updated with Loren Thompson & Byron Callan comment WASHINGTON: Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s sudden exit from the House Speaker race raises the chance of a fiscal disaster — but it also raises the odds of a desperate budget deal. Both extremes just got more likely. Ironically, this deepening leadership void elevates the role of Rep. John […]
Pope Leaves, Boehner Resigns, Shutdown Looms…
WASHINGTON: Speaker John Boehner, that always-tanned, often crying fellow who has led House Republicans since 2010, appears to have given up after new challenges from fiscal radicals in the Republican Party and announced his resignation this morning. Boehner, a Catholic, campaigned for 20 years to bring a Pope to Congress. Yesterday he got his wish and […]
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