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Bridenstine Wants To Elevate FAA Office Of Commercial Space Transportation

Pat Host

Wednesday, February 8th, 2017

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Bridenstine Wants To Elevate FAA Office Of Commercial Space Transportation

Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) wants to elevate the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) by moving it back to the Transportation Department (DOT) and giving it assistant secretary leadership.Bridenstine told an industry audience Wednesday that AST’s current placement in the FAA leads to battles for the focus of resources and finances and, thus, hurts the American space enterprise. He suggested President Donald Trump use an executive order like President Bill Clinton did in 1995 to elevate…

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

Army

Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]

Army

Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

The Army is relooking at its “whole aviation transformation initiative,” the service’s acting chief of staff told lawmakers on Tuesday, to include its approach for future procurement of “enduring” platforms. […]

Army

Lawmakers Request DoD Briefing On Army’s Planned Cuts To Aviation Procurement

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has sent a letter asking the Pentagon for a briefing on the potential industrial base impacts as a result of the Army’s planned cuts […]