Budget
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BudgetArctic Communications Capability Tops NORTHCOM’s Unfunded Priorities
Having a reliable broadband communications capability for Arctic operations is the top unfunded priority of U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM), the command’s chief said on Tuesday during before a Senate panel […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyPerdue Calls for Detailed Air Force Acquisition Strategy on ABMS
The Air Force needs to provide Congress with more details of how it plans to acquire new networked technologies via the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) program, a top Senate […]
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BudgetSASC Democrat Endorses Biden as Other Moderate Candidates Line Up Behind Ex-Veep
A Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Democratic member up for reelection this year endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president March 1, as multiple moderate candidates announced they were […]
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Air ForceCanceled Defensive System For B-2 Suffered From Coding Challenges, Roper Says
The Air Force decided to cancel a major defensive upgrade to its B-2 stealth bomber in the fiscal year 2021 budget request after realizing that new software code wouldn’t work […]
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Air ForceKey KC-46A Tanker System Made Big Progress In Past Few Weeks, Roper Says
A critical component of the Air Force’s KC-46A aerial refueling tanker that has been caught up in a difficult development has made more progress in the past month than in […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Leaders Admit FY 2021 Shipbuilding Cuts Grow Fleet Slower
Navy leaders on Thursday admitted at a hearing that the FY 2021 shipbuilding budget request numbers slows the service’s goal of reaching 355 ships. The Navy’s FY ’21 shipbuilding request […]
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Air ForceGoldfein: ‘Night Court’ Savings Rolled Back to Save COCOMs from Near-Term Risk
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Air Force last year identified $30 billion it had found over the five-year Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP) that could be freed up from current programs […]
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Nuclear ModernizationSome W87 Warheads Will Go on GBSD Without Getting New Pits First
The Department of Energy and the Pentagon plan deploy W87-0 warheads, without new plutonium pit cores, on some Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) missiles, potentially buying the civilian agency more […]
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BudgetBorder Patrol Prioritizing New AI-Based Sensor Towers, CBP Chief Says
The government’s funding request in fiscal year 2021 for border security technology favors new artificial intelligence (AI)-based tower systems that can autonomously detect illegal border crossing activity, the head of […]
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BudgetArmed Services Chair Says DoE Has Cash Pile, Questions Planned Raid on Pentagon Progs for Nuke Mods
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday began to ink the contours of the 2021 nuclear-weapons budget fight to come, when the committee chair wondered in a hearing why the […]