White House comes out against Senate FY26 NDAA language on DoD spectrum rights
Section 1564 would give the Joint Chiefs of Staff the right to nix changes to military systems that would be required to comply with planned spectrum sharing plans.
Section 1564 would give the Joint Chiefs of Staff the right to nix changes to military systems that would be required to comply with planned spectrum sharing plans.
In this exclusive op-ed, Republican senators Deb Fischer and Mike Rounds lay out the new rules that will, they say, protect Pentagon spectrum needs for the next decade.
The smaller SBI price tag enabled by the drop in launch costs could be offset by the need for a much larger number of satellites to fulfil Trump's Golden Dome plan, the Congressional Budget Office study caveats.
“Almost all the systems that we use for homeland defense rely on that part of the spectrum that's being considered to be either sold or shared,” Gen. Gregory Guillot, commander of US Northern Command, said.
In which five executives, three lawmakers and two Pentagon officials weigh in on whether they think DOGE will be a good thing or a bad thing for the Defense Department.
Sen. Deb Fischer talked Pete Hegseth's nomination, nuclear modernization and her hopes for the Trump administration in this interview with Breaking Defense's Valerie Insinna.
Key members of the defense committees in both the House and Senate are locked in races that are still undecided.
“I'd like to see in a Harris administration, a commitment to the innovation reform agenda at DoD,” said HASC Ranking Member Rep. Adam Smith. “That really has, I think, stalled a little bit."
The conservative Heritage Foundation presented the new report as a potential draft Nuclear Posture Review for the 2025 presidential administration.
The panel's leaders described the need for a capability similar to the Navy research program, but declined to pick "winners and losers," its chairwoman said.
“It's all about providing the president options against a broad series of contingencies. And in this respect, I am in favor of continuing to assess and evaluate the SLCM-N," the Pentagon's No. 2 general said.
"I'm optimistic, based on my discussions with [MDA director] Jon Hill, that we'll potentially see the Next-Generation Interceptor move further left," Lt. Gen. Glen VanHerck told the Senate.
WASHINGTON: The youngest senator on Capitol Hill, and one of the very few lawmakers who can wear a Bronze Star and a Ranger tab, has stepped right from his one-term House seat to chairmanship of one of the most important subcommittees on Capitol Hill. That would be Tom Cotton of Arkansas, the new chair of […]