Budget
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ArmySASC Pays Out $94 Million For Army Vehicle Active Protection Systems
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) has provided an infusion of cash for the Army to buy Active Protections Systems (APS) for its combat vehicles, adding $94 million for off-the-shelf […]
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BudgetSASC Defense Authorization Bill Strays With House Plan to Use OCO Funds for Base Expenses
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is taking a different approach on military funding in its fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill than its House counterpart. Instead of designating a […]
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Air ForceHouse Appropriators Release $576 Billion Defense Spending Bill, Sticks to HASC’s OCO Funding Scheme
In their $576 billion defense spending bill, House appropriators mimicked the authorizing committee’s approach to increase funding for the military by shorting the wartime spending account—thereby forcing the next president […]
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Air ForceSASC Subcommittees Add More Money for Reapers, Depot Maintenance
The topline of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill is still a mystery, but SASC subcommittees during markups of the bill on Tuesday revealed key […]
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BudgetFormer Pentagon Chief Accountant Wary Of Pulling War Funding To Patch DoD Base Budget
A plan put forth by the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) to rob the Pentagon’s war funding to patch holes in its fiscal 2017 base budget could have a ripple […]
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BudgetIngalls Shipbuilding Enthusiastic for Additional Amphibious Shipbuilding Opportunities
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) wants to Navy to get a move on with amphibious shipbuilding, with its seapower subcommittee including in its portion of the defense authorization bill […]
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ArmyHASC Defense Bill Increases Army Apache, Black Hawk Helicopter Procurement
The House Armed Service Committee (HASC) is seeking to restore, with war funding, some of the deep cuts the Army plans to make to helicopter procurement to pay for near-term […]
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Air ForceHASC Approves $610 Billion Defense Authorization Bill, Adding Nine More Russian Rocket Engines
After a long markup ending early Thursday morning, the House Armed Services Committee moved forward a $610 billion defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2017 that mostly kept acquisition programs safe […]
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BudgetCarter Slams HASC Plan To Plug Pentagon Base-Budget Holes With War Funding
Secretary of Defense Ashton Carton came out guns blazing Wednesday against a proposal by the House Armed Services Committee to redirect $18 billion from war funding to pay for items […]
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BudgetAmendment to Curb LCS Program Withdrawn at HASC Defense Authorization Bill Markup
A potential fight among lawmakers over the future of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program was over before it began after Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) announced on Wednesday that she […]