The Defense Department should invest more research-and-development funds toward efforts to eventually field a space-based early warning sensor layer in lower orbits, the U.S. military’s number-two general said Jan. 17. Speaking for the first time publicly in his role as vice chairman of the Joint ...
Budget
The Navy deserves a larger cut of the annual budget to ensure it is prepared for its role in a future conflict with peer adversaries, but must make tough choices and coordinate both Navy and Marine Corps assets to successfully make that case to Congress, a House Armed Services Committee member and ...
The Army’s fiscal year 2021 budget, expected to be released in mid-February, will include another round of program cuts as the service looks to free up additional funds required to shift from prototyping new weapon systems to buying the first low-rate production units. Army Secretary Ryan ...
The Senate passed H.R. 1158, a minibus appropriations bill providing funds to the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, among others, by a vote of 81-11 Dec. 19. Lawmakers voting “no” included Republican Sens. Mike Braun (Ind.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Mike Lee (Utah); ...
The Air Force would receive an extra $75 million for a program set to build its future early warning missile detection satellites under the fiscal year 2020 defense spending bill winding its way through Congress. The FY ‘20 national security minibus bill includes $1.47 billion in ...
The Senate will vote on two minibus appropriations bills to fund all 12 funding bills Dec. 19, the top Republican said Dec. 18. “Tomorrow we’ll vote on government funding bills the House passed yesterday,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). “A lot of hard work brought this ...
