House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), along with GOP committee members, urged Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to bring a plan to the Senate floor without delay to resolve sequestration. “The time for rhetoric has passed,” wrote McKeon and the Republican committee members in their June 29 letter. Resolution cannot wait for “a lame duck session, or even the next Congress,” they stated. They added, “If you have a solution in mind, it is incumbent upon you to bring it to the floor of your own chamber, pass it, and allow us to move into a conference.” The House lawmakers told Reid that he would “bear responsibility for a morally unconscionable outcome that breaks faith with our service members and their families” if he does not allow a plan to resolve sequestration to come to the Senate floor. “We must resolve sequestration now,” they wrote.
The Air Force plans to have its new Integrated Capabilities Command stood up by the end of 2024, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said May 2, offering new details of one of the signature reforms announced by the service earlier this year. Allvin said around 500-800 Airmen will…