Congress
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Navy/USMCHouse Subcommittee Leaders Support 355 Ship Fleet, Look For Decades-Long Path
The leaders of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces both support the U.S. Navy’s assessment of increasing the fleet to 355 ships but recognize a decades-long […]
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ArmySOCOM Acquisition Trailblazing Could Streamline DoD Weapon Buying
Special Operations Command (SOCOM), which relies on the military services to provide much of its enabling technologies and platforms, has begun blazing trails to new technologies and sharing that knowledge […]
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CongressTRANSCOM Learned ‘Surprising Amount’ From Wargame, Command Chief Says
U.S. Transportation Command (TRANSCOM), which recently conducted its first contested-environment wargame, uncovered a “surprising amount” of lessons learned from that activity, the head of TRANSCOM said May 2. “We’ve adapted […]
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CongressMcCaul Touts Biometric Technologies To Help Close U.S. Security Vulnerabilities
The use of identification technologies to verify or uncover the identities of foreign nationals attempting to enter the United States, legally or illegally, as well as move around the country […]
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CongressHASC Republican Staff Director Leaving
Bob Simmons, the longtime Republican staff director for the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), plans to leave Capitol Hill to join the private sector, the GOP-led panel announced May 1. Simmons […]
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Navy/USMCNavy Submarine Proposal Not Enough To Ease Shortfall, PACOM Chief Says
A Navy proposal to speed up the purchase of three Virginia-class attack submarines is a welcome step but would make only a modest dent in the military’s shortfall of those […]
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CongressKatko Wants TSA To Look At Bolstering Innovation Task Force Effort
The chairman of a House subcommittee that oversees the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) wants the agency to look at the additional staff and resources it would need to strengthen a […]
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ArmyBudget Delay Is Biggest Threat To Readiness, Modernization, Army Leaders Tell Quad A
NASHVILLE—Key U.S. Army aviation modernization initiatives will grind to a halt as soon as this week if Congress fails to enact and submit for President Trump’s signature a Fiscal 2017 […]
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Air ForceMeyerson Laments Air Force Lethargy Toward Streamlining Commercial Launch Licensing
A top commercial space executive on Wednesday lamented the Air Force’s slow pace toward eliminating duplicative requirements and approvals for commercial launches, despite a pair of 2016 letters from a […]
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CongressPACOM Chief Says Hawaii Needs More Protection Against North Korean Missiles
The United States should put a missile-tracking radar in Hawaii and consider placing interceptor missiles there as well to better protect the island state against North Korean ballistic missiles, according to […]