Budget

The Army has “huge” worries about how the defense contractors on which it relies will fare if sequestration budget cuts persist, its top civilian said. Army Secretary John McHugh told […]

The Defense Department’s acquisition process simply “takes way too long and costs way too much,” the Air Force’s top civilian said Tuesday. Air Force Secretary Michael Donley testified to the […]

The Air Force could not definitively confirm yesterday if it was on track to meet legally-required audit readiness for fiscal years 2014 and 2017. “(The) short answer is yes, but […]

The Pentagon is looking to cut more funding from its headquarters, defense agencies, and combatant commands as it scours its budget for cost savings, its No. 2 official said. Deputy […]

The Defense Department said last week it approved BlackBerry [BBRY] 10 smartphones, BlackBerry PlayBook tablets with BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 mobile device management and Samsung’s Android operating system (OS) that […]

It’s hard to keep track of what officials have said about sequestration, the proposed fiscal year 2014 budget and defense cuts changing the military at the same time as defense […]

The Australian government says it’s sticking with plans to buy F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, saying it will by about 72 in the near term and will decide on the procurement […]

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will decide soon how many civilian employees will be forced to take unpaid leave because of “sequestration” budget cuts, and those furloughs could impact the military […]

A top analyst said as the Pentagon tries to thwart “sequestration” budget reductions it should “take a lesson” from how Congress rushed to make those cuts less onerous on the […]

The cost of deploying Aegis Ashore, the land component of the ship-based missile defense system, to a site in Europe as well as for a testing and development in Hawaii […]