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 ...
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The Space Force doesn’t just need a more resilient satellite architecture, the service’s potential new leader told lawmakers Sept. 13—it needs more and better ways to test and train its Guardians for the future of a contested domain.
House passes 2023 NDAA.
After years of wrangling in Congress and more than a dozen failed bills, President Joe Biden signed the largest expansion of Veterans Affairs health care in 30 years, adding more than 5 million eligible veterans but leaving some waiting up to 10 years for phase-in ...
More than seven weeks still remain until the 2023 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, but observers of Congress are already warning that time is running out for lawmakers to pass the annual National Defense Authorization Act and appropriations bill that will fund the Pentagon ...
While the air picture has remained static in the Russia-Ukraine war, the introduction of High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems has allowed Ukraine to strike surface-to-air missile targets behind enemy lines. Now the U.S. is considering future aviation contributions in Ukraine. Defense officials painted a picture ...
The Pentagon budget seems poised for an increase in 2023 over the $773 billion requested by President Joe Biden. The question now is how large that increase will be. The leaders of the Senate Appropriations committee released their markup of the defense funding bill July ...
Nominees to lead U.S. Africa Command and U.S. Special Operations Command who testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on July 21 described the Air Force assets they would need to better fight terrorism and counter influence by China and Russia. Army Lt. Gen. Bryan ...
The Senate Armed Services Committee asks the Space Force to develop a "comprehensive strategy" and formalize a plan to achieve its priorities in the SASC's version of the 2023 National Defense Authorization bill, which the committee released publicly July 18. The committee also wants reports ...
