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DHS Recap Plan For Coast Guard Leaves Missions Vulnerable, Rogers Warns

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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

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By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) budget request for the Coast Guard in FY '11, which calls for shedding some older assets to build new cutters and aircraft, creates holes in the service's mission capabilities sooner and later, the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee told a senior DHS official yesterday. "Your budget says that you're making these cuts, substantial cuts, in both equipment and manpower in order to fund investments in the new…

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Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

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Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]