SASC wants $45B jump to defense budget topline for inflation, Ukraine assistance
The Senate Armed Services Committee's proposed topline figure would increase the already-historic Pentagon spending plan proposed by the Biden administration.
The Senate Armed Services Committee's proposed topline figure would increase the already-historic Pentagon spending plan proposed by the Biden administration.
The ship, LHA-9, had already been authorized, so its inclusion as new in the president's budget request attracted immediate attention from lawmakers following the budget's rollout.
"We made it clear when we stood this up that it is going to be an evolutionary process, and that we just stood up the bare bones in the first year — because it's hard enough to do that," Rep. Mike Rogers said. "And we're putting the flesh on the bones each year trying to mature it in a slow and pragmatic fashion, and do it right."
"I know there's an issue with the total number that's been on the table for some years," Frank Kendall said. "What we should really be working on most is getting the cost down and keeping the procurement at a rate that makes sense."
The nominee for Army Secretary also aims to end “friction” between civilian acquisition officials and Army Futures Command, she told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
If we listen to the radical groups who want our nuclear deterrent to wither away, we will have nothing of value to negotiate and nothing but bad options if we are threatened by a nuclear power. No amount of conventional weaponry can credibly offset that advantage.
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
“On the eve of Christmas Eve, this veto seems to be Trump’s parting gift to Putin and a lump of coal for our troops," Sen. Jack Reed says.
President Trump goes after SASC Chairman and Hill ally Jim Inhofe in a tweet, setting up a fight over the defense bill in the waning days of his administration
The Democrats so far have underperformed expectations in House and Senate races, but tight contests in Michigan, Alaska, and North Carolina await resolution
Anthony Tata was facing across-the-board Democratic opposition and increasingly shaky support among Republicans due to inflammatory Tweets deriding then-President Obama, Islam, and accusing former CIA director John Brennan of attempting to order the killing of Trump.
"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.
Lawmakers “are frustrated by the Navy's last decade of cost overruns on new programs, programs being late, and technology being the thing that holds them up,” Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute says.
The HASC chairman sees the handling of intelligence over Russian threats in Afghanistan and the proposed withdrawal of troops from Germany as symptoms of pervasive problems in the Trump Administration.
Dale Leibach, Keep GPS Working spokesperson, says that already "about one-third -- Republicans and Democrats -- of the Senate oppose" the Ligado plan.