Armed services committee leaders remain adamant that a deal could be reached for the fiscal year 2020 defense authorizing bill by early next week, but must still reach consensus on the same key issues that have plagued the deal all fall. Following assertions on Wednesday that a deal could be ...

The Defense Department should place a greater emphasis on funding and developing transportation and logistics capabilities to support its lethal assets in a future conflict, and explicitly prioritize it in future national defense strategies, a Senate Armed Services Committee member and retired ...

Continuing resolutions and budget uncertainty are a perennial concern to the U.S. military, but the nascent Space Development Agency’s (SDA) future appears particularly tied to how quickly lawmakers can authorize and appropriate fiscal year 2020 defense funding. The Defense Department must ...

The chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees were emphatic that a deal on the conference fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) could be reached by early next week in talks with reporters Dec. 4, despite a number of issues remaining up for debate. Sen. Jim ...

The U.S. government must look at adopting commercial sector manufacturing practices to quickly build and field a more proliferated network of sensors in space, Mike Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said Dec. 3. Speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s event †...

The Air Force has yet to reach a decision on where to locate the new U.S. Space Command headquarters, three months since the combatant command’s revival in August, a senior Air Force official said Dec. 3. The decision was originally expected to be made by summer 2019, but has been held up as the ...