The COVID-19 pandemic imposed supply chain and labor shortages on the defense industrial base.
Budget
Congressional leaders say they have made a significant breakthrough toward agreeing to a budget for fiscal year 2022—more than four months after the fiscal year began. But Air Force Association leaders are calling on lawmakers to break what has become a nearly-annual tradition of continuing resolutions ...
The Biden Administration's inflation estimates will be the big story related to the fiscal 2023 defense budget submission, experts said in a streamed Center for Strategic and International Studies “budget preview” Feb. 7. The inflation estimates will either be greeted as realistic—and damning for the ...
Congress will consider yet another continuing resolution—the third this fiscal year—to keep the government funded into March, as lawmakers continue to haggle over the fiscal 2022 budget. The Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act, introduced in the House Committee on Rules on Feb. 7, would ...
A new commission aimed at reforming the Defense Department’s budgeting process will include former Pentagon acquisition and sustainment chief Ellen M. Lord as well as several former high-ranking Air Force leaders. The commission will be tasked with looking at ways to shake up the Pentagon’s ...
The Department of the Air Force is set to embark on a readiness review as it works to dig itself out of a “readiness hole,” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said. "Sequestration has been gone just a short period of time now, and I think ...
The fiscal year 2022 budget will enter its fifth month under a continuing resolution in February, the product of a record-setting latest ever budget release by the Biden administration in May 2021. Meanwhile, the president’s fiscal year 2023 budget request is unlikely to meet a ...
USAF is ill-prepared to absorb combat losses in a peer fight.
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