The subcommittee is responsible for the readiness of the US military, overseeing training, logistics, housing, contracting, and more.
The Senate Subcommittee on Personnel sets the total number of military personnel allowed each year.
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.
The senators' draft of the annual defense bill puts a new emphasis on technological competition, including industrial policy moves to strengthen US companies.