Budget

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel declared yesterday that the Pentagon cannot avoid making significant changes to its weapons purchasing as it revises its military strategy because of budget cuts. During his […]

The Pentagon is still assessing how many civilian employees will be forced to take up to two weeks of unpaid leave because of “sequestration” budget cuts, though it knows one […]

Competition is the “cornerstone of a sound acquisition process” and a vital tool for offering taxpayers the best return on investment, but the competition rate at the Defense Department has […]

President Barack Obama intends to nominate Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove to become Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and the head of U.S. European Command (EUCOM), Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel […]

The Defense Department wants to continue, and expand, a pilot information technology (IT) program that exchanges IT and cyber security knowledge and best practices between the private and public sectors, […]

Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) Ranking Member James Inhofe (R-Okla.) wants to create a $16 billion fund to help the Pentagon offset unintended costs the “sequestration” budget cuts could trigger. […]

In the wake of an influential report exposing Chinese military hacking, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) is calling on the administration to react more firmly to state-sponsored cyber attacks and espionage. […]

The House easily passed a new government budget on Thursday that helps the Pentagon manage the new “sequestration” budget cuts, spurring military leaders to delay the process of furloughing civilian […]

The Senate passed via a 73-26 vote on Wednesday a level-funded $518 billion defense appropriations bill after rejecting an attempt to reduce military-biofuel funds in it. The Senate made no […]

The Defense Department’s upcoming Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) is an opportunity for the United States to start integrating cross domain capability into future strategies, which could be a “game changer” […]