Budget
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BudgetCSBA: Congress Unlikely To Raise Spending Caps Enough to Accommodate Expected DoD FY ’16 Request
The Pentagon will unveil its fiscal year 2016 budget request on Monday and ask Congress to give about $35 billion more than the sequestration spending caps allow for defense spending–and […]
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BudgetCompensation Commission Recommendations Could Save DoD $4.8 Billion in First Year, $8 Billion Eventually
The Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission released its recommendations Thursday after more than a year of work, surveying well over a million people in the military community about hundreds […]
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BudgetNavy Shifts Sequestration Strategy To Save Ships
The Navy has adopted a different strategy to cope with sequestration if it returns, one aiming to curtail the number of ships that would be cut from the fleet but […]
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BudgetDemocrats Ask Senate Leader For Vote On ‘Clean’ DHS Funding Bill
Senate Democrats on Tuesday asked Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to bring up an FY ’15 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that excludes measures approved […]
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BudgetThornberry: Reform Will Create Better Procurement System, But No Goals For Monetary Savings
As the House Armed Services Committee works on its fiscal year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act –which will likely include some but not all ideas for acquisition and pay and […]
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BudgetPentagon Gearing Up Once Again To Fight Sequestration
Pentagon leaders are preparing to mount an assault on the possible full return of draconian spending cuts known as sequestration as they near plans to unveil the defense budget request […]
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BudgetDemocrats Use Delay Tactics As House Panel Begins Markup Of Border Security Bill
The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday began its markup of a Republican bill to strengthen the nation’s border security, mainly the southern border, but the discussions didn’t progress far […]
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Budget
Thornberry: Acquisition Reform, Preserving Military Assets Are Top Priorities
New House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) laid out his agenda Tuesday morning at the American Enterprise Institute, saying that acquisition reform and saving important platforms, industrial […]
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BudgetJohnson Recommends Veto Of House DHS Bill Blocking Immigration Actions
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, to nobody’s surprise, on Thursday recommended that President Barack Obama veto a spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security if it passes Congresses with […]
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BudgetHouse Approves FY ’15 DHS Funding Bill But Thwarts Obama On Immigration Reform
The House on Wednesday approved a $39.7 billion appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the remainder of fiscal year 2015 while also passing several amendments designed […]