The Navy submitted an abridged long-range shipbuilding plan to Congress without the details of construction past fiscal year 2022 and which downplays plans for a 355-ship fleet. The plan, due with the fiscal year 20222 budget request but delivered late, said it “highlights the future vectors the ...

A pair of Senate appropriators on Thursday pressed the defense secretary on the Pentagon’s decision to push back procurement of a second new Navy destroyer in the fiscal year 2022 budget request, citing concerns on impacts to the industrial base. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the decision ...

Legislation introduced by two Republican representatives this week seeks to hold half of the Defense Department’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE) office’s budget until the Navy conducts a block buy contract to procure four amphibious ships as previously planned. House Armed ...

After the Army received a $3.6 billion topline cut in the president’s fiscal year 2022 budget request, the service’s new secretary told lawmakers Tuesday she would “certainly welcome additional funds” as Congress considers the Army’s unfunded priorities list and assembles future spending ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) submitted a $367.5 million unfunded priorities list with the fiscal year 2022 budget request this month, topped with extra missile defense interceptors and more hypersonic defense funds. According to the annual wish list obtained by Defense Daily, it was delivered ...

Lawmakers on Thursday pressed Pentagon leadership on program cuts and delays in the department’s recently released $715 billion fiscal year 2022 budget request, specifically citing concerns with plans to reduce the number of A-10 aircraft and Block 30 RQ-4 Global Hawk drones and push back ...