Senate Armed Services Committee

NDAA on track for mid-December: Rep. Wittman

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.

US nuclear arsenal currently safe, reliable: STRATCOM nominee

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.

Wilsbach declines to commit to congressional ‘intent’ for reconciliation money

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.

CNO nominee Adm. Caudle says he’ll look ‘hard’ at whether to ‘walk away’ from sub Boise

Adm. Daryl Caudle characterized the USS Boise's story as "unacceptable" and a "dagger in my heart as a submarine officer."

SASC version of defense policy bill adds $32B to boost F-35, shipbuilding

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.

DoD S-band needed for Golden Dome, border defense threatened by spectrum auction plans: CSIS

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.

Integration on Virginia-class subs the ‘greatest risk’ for nuclear sea-launched cruise missile: Navy official

"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.

Who’s Who in Defense: Mike Rounds, Chairman, Senate Armed Services (SASC) Subcommittee on Cybersecurity

Mike Rounds chairs the SACS’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, which is responsible for the policies and programs related to cyber forces and capabilities.

Congress approved a budget blueprint with up to $150B extra for defense. Now comes the hard part.

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.

NORTHCOM commander: ‘Strong concern’ spectrum auctioning could jeopardize Golden Dome 

“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.

Air Force weighs plan to cancel SDA’s next set of data relay sats in favor of SpaceX: Sources

The shift was recommended by the Space Force in order to protect the service's high-priority efforts, sources told Breaking Defense.

‘SignalGate’ scandal prompts questions on classified disclosures during SECAF, acquisition czar hearing

“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.

Amid shortage, Navy recruiting program struggles to keep half first-year shipbuilders: Official

"Those folks are coming, and then we're attriting out way too quick," said Brett Seidle, the Navy’s acting acquisition executive.

Who’s Who in Defense: Mike Rogers, Chairman, House Armed Services Committee (HASC)

As the 119th Congress moves forward under a Republican-led majority party, Rogers returns as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, with oversight of the panel that drafts the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorization bill.