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Army

BAE Systems Offers Ways To Maintain Bradley Capability

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, March 12th, 2013

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BAE Systems, original equipment manufacturer for the Bradley Fighting vehicle, is proposing ways to keep the 586 supplier-strong industrial base and Army modernization moving along instead of an Army plan to shutter vehicle production from 2014 to at least 2017, an official said. “It’s about maintaining a strategic capability that is easily lost and is not easily reconstituted and the cost for that reconstitution is probably in excess of the cost to sustain the capability over the same period,” Mark…

Congress

Senate Dems Block Consideration Of FY ‘27 NDAA Over Iran War Concerns

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to advance consideration of the chamber’s $1.14 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). The procedural vote was 46-50, failing to reach […]

Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) raised concerns at a hearing on Tuesday about the majority of funds in the $153 billion first reconciliation bill being unobligated thus […]

Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]

Congress

House Heads For Recess Without Moving On NDAA After Procedural Vote Fails

The House will leave for the Fourth of July recess without moving forward on its $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with a procedural vote to […]