The subcommittee is responsible for the readiness of the US military, overseeing training, logistics, housing, contracting, and more.
Air Force Gen. CQ Brown received praise for his career while fielding some culture war questions from Republicans, and separately indicated he would not work for a defense contractor after serving as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
AI, autonomous systems, cyber, and EW converge as industry targets faster battlefield effects.
Legislation would require the 75% of the department's FY23 non-tactical vehicle purchases to be electric or zero-emissions.
Adm. Christopher Grady appears poised to become the military's second highest ranking officer.
A senior Navy admiral says the service is "pretty good" at firefighting at sea, but conceded "education" and "spot checking" is necessary at the shipyards.
Approximately 50 experts in cloud computing were responsible for selecting Microsoft for the JEDI contract, and were anonymous to prevent political influence from the White House.
As threats rapidly evolve, digital engineering, manufacturing capacity and robust supply chains are critical to meeting challenges.
But Col. Kathryn Spletstoser doubled down on her accusations against her former boss: “He could have raped me.”
“Arlington is full of our comrades, and we understand absolutely full well the hazards of our chosen profession ... and we are not going to be intimidated into making stupid decisions. We will give our best military advice, regardless of the consequences to ourselves."
A bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives is urging Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to budget $1.5 billion a year to reinforce US forces in the Pacific to better support Asian allies, stiffening their spines against Chinese intimidation. Known as the Asia-Pacific Stability Initiative and endorsed by the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, it’s a proposal […]
Presumptive Defense Secretary James Mattis sent a clear signal to America’s allies — and to his presumptive boss, President-Elect Trump — that the NATO alliance is “enormously” important and that America “must also take no ally for granted.” If approved by the Senate, Mattis said, in written answers to questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee, […]
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
CAPITOL HILL: Despite tight budgets at the Pentagon, the Navy wants to speed-up several shipbuilding programs — amphibious warships, destroyers, and submarines — and Congress seems inclined to give them the money. That’s testimony both to the perennial political popularity of shipbuilding, which employs a lot of voters, and to the rising strategic anxiety over […]
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 […]