Leaders on the Armed Services Committees in both the House and Senate are crafting a compromise National Defense Authorization Act and still hope to pass the annual policy bill before the end of 2022, said HASC chairman Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.). Once more, lawmakers are ...
Budget
The Department of the Air Force once again failed its audit but made progress in cleaning up its books. Since 2008, the Air Force has never produced a clean audit for either its General Fund, which supports its core missions and overall operations, or its ...
Nearly 50 members of Congress have urged Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III to fund a new phase of development for advanced fighter engines in the fiscal 2024 budget, sending a letter to the Pentagon on Oct. 7. The letter, signed by 49 lawmakers from ...
Congress passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through Dec. 16, avoiding a shutdown but ensuring that the Pentagon and other federal agencies will yet again start the fiscal year without a new budget. The continuing resolution will mostly keep spending levels frozen ...
Congress needs to do a better job of providing the Air Force with steady, consistent funding; the Air Force needs to find ways to develop programs faster; and the two need to work together to ensure that the service can build capacity for both the ...
The Advanced Battle Management System's best chance against failing is to create a czar for command, control, and communications who will have top-down support to enforce decisions, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall told reporters at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference. He also discussed topics ...
Airmen and Guardians in more than 30 communities across the Department of the Air Force will see their special duty pay reduced in the coming months. All told, 22 groups have been tabbed for a reduction in Special Duty Assignment Pay, given to Airmen with ...
The Pentagon's upcoming 2023 fiscal year budget should go up at least $42 billion to $815 billion to combat rising inflation, warned three former Department of Defense comptrollers in a whitepaper released Tuesday by National Defense Industrial Association. NDIA also raised similar concerns in a ...
President Joe Biden’s administration is asking Congress to approve another $11.7 billion in security and economic aid for Ukraine as part of a continuing resolution to keep the government funded to start fiscal 2023. The request comes as Congress seems increasingly unlikely to pass a ...