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Amendments to OCO, Stryker Funding Emerge as Senate Takes Up Defense Bill

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

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Amendments to OCO, Stryker Funding Emerge as Senate Takes Up Defense Bill

Stryker Photo: U.S. Army

The Senate kicked off debate of the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill Wednesday, and Democrats are already fighting a mechanism that would allow the Defense Department to bypass spending limits set in the 2011 Budget Control Act.The National Defense Authorization Act recommends the full $612 billion requested in the president’s budget, but to keep funding levels under BCA caps, $38 billion from the base budget was transferred to the wartime spending account.Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I), ranking member of the…

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Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

Munitions fired in the two-month old “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran represent most of the $25 billion cost the Pentagon has incurred thus far in the conflict, the acting Defense […]

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Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

The Pentagon should be using Anthropic‘s recently announced Mythos artificial intelligence model to spot gaps in cyber security, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesda. “I think the thing that […]

Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), have introduced the Airpower Acceleration Act, which would authorize multi-year procurements of […]

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HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.– Congress’ work to pass $350 billion in reconciliation funds to support the Trump administration’s push for a $1.5 trillion fiscal year 2027 defense topline is “going to […]