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 ...

A top Navy official confirmed the service is examining anomaly requests for a possible longer-term continuing resolution (CR) while a Marine Corps official expected no anomalies for his service. Lt. Gen. Eric Smith, Commanding General of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and Deputy ...

A six-month continuing resolution would cause significant delays for the Army’s plans to field the new Strategic Long Range Cannon, a lead program official told Defense Daily on Wednesday, and result in “irrecoverable time setbacks” due postponed demonstrations at test ranges.  Brig. Gen. ...

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 ...