By the time the 2026 defense budget request arrived on Capitol Hill in June, Congress was closing in on passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act, a massive tax-and-spending bill that included some $150 billion for defense. The budget reconciliation measure narrowly passed the ...
procurement
Total aircraft inventory; aircraft inventory trends; ICBM and satellite inventory; andaircraft age.
The Defense Department Budget rolls up the total spending by each military department—the Departments of the Air Force (which also includes the Space Force), the Navy (which also includes the Marine Corps), and the Army.
At $886 billion, the Pentagon’s 2024 budget request is “first and foremost ... a procurement budget,” assistant defense secretary Kathleen H. Hicks said March 13—a shift from the first two budget requests of the Biden administration, which emphasized investments in research and development.
The U.S. must reverse decades of underfunding its Air Force.
The Defense Department Budget rolls up the total spending by each military department—the Departments of the Air Force (which also includes the Space Force), the Navy (which also includes the Marine Corps), and the Army.
Marvin Test Solutions' SmartCan has the power to address many of the current test gaps found in the armament community and the capacity to meet future requirements. Importantly, the Air National Guard has published post-demonstration reports addressing the capabilities of the SmartCan to support not only ...
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee is looking to stop the Air Force’s procurement of the nuclear Long-Range Standoff weapon system, at least until he gets some more information. Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released his chairman’s markup of the 2022 National Defense Authorization ...
Space policy experts at the Satellite 2020 conference argued overclassification of those systems makes it harder to achieve the procurement reforms that military space needs. Pentagon officials noted their collaboration with entities in the intelligence community helps keep those who need to be informed in ...
The Air Force’s unique “pass-through” budget mechanism, which inflates the apparent size of the service’s budget with monies that aren’t actually under its control, may become the core of the new Space Force’s budget, Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett reported. Barrett, in a Jan. 30 ...
