The bill forces the Pentagon to adopt a "portfolio acquisition executive model" for managing programs and makes it easier for commercial firms to do business with the department.
Rep. Rob Wittman, R.-Va., said today that the biggest unresolved issues in voting on the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act are those that cross committee jurisdictional lines in the Senate.
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Vice Adm. Richard Correll said that Trump's announcement does not necessarily mean detonating a test weapon — noting that neither China nor Russia has conducted a nuclear explosive test in recent memory.
Air Force Chief of Staff nominee Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach also left the fate of the Air Force's wide-ranging "reoptimization" overhaul in the air.
Adm. Daryl Caudle characterized the USS Boise's story as "unacceptable" and a "dagger in my heart as a submarine officer."
Shipbuilding and munitions were the major beneficiaries of the $32.1 billion added to the defense topline, with about $8.5 billion added for shipbuilding and about $6 billion added for munitions, according to a senior congressional official.
Answering the Pentagon’s call to bolster defense industrial base.
Selling off the low S-band "is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea," Tom Karako, director of the CSIS Missile Defense Project, told Breaking Defense today.
"This will be a whole new infrastructure that we have to stand up and so getting all of those things in place, getting the weapon system done, but as importantly, getting the fleet trained ... that's going to be the one of the challenging parts of this," said Vice. Adm Johnny Wolfe, director of the Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs.
Mike Rounds chairs the SACS’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, which is responsible for the policies and programs related to cyber forces and capabilities.
The House and Senate armed services committees have been directed to figure out how to spend extra defense funding, but have been given different monetary targets.
“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.
The shift was recommended by the Space Force in order to protect the service's high-priority efforts, sources told Breaking Defense.
“I’m not aware of any Signal chats that contain sensitive information,” said Michael Duffey, the nominee for the Pentagon's top acquisition job, and currently Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's deputy chief of staff.
"Those folks are coming, and then we're attriting out way too quick," said Brett Seidle, the Navy’s acting acquisition executive.