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BudgetDoD Rejects Congressional Claims QDR Ignores Legal Requirements
A Defense Department official rejected the notion that the Quadrennial Defense Review did not meet its mandatory requirements and therefore should be rewritten, as House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck […]
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BudgetCongress May Force DoD to Rewrite, Resubmit QDR
Even before the Defense Department released its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), lawmakers had already threatened to reject it–and they followed through on their threats as soon as the report was […]
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BudgetLine-Item List for $26 Billion Fund To Be Released Next Week; OCO Budget Details Still Unknown
As congressional committees continue to dissect the defense budget request for the next two months, a few key pieces of information are still being compiled: chiefly, the Overseas Contingency Operations […]
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HASC Suggests ‘Politically Unpopular’ Cuts Won’t Stick; Dempsey Outlines How Else To Cut $1 Billion
For the second day in a row, the defense secretary and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff brought their 2015 budget request to Capitol Hill, only to have lawmakers […]
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CongressSenate Confirms Kerlikowske, Roth, Spaulding For DHS Posts
The Senate on Thursday confirmed by voice vote Gil Kerlikowske, John Roth and Suzanne Spaulding to fill the vacant positions of Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, Inspector General and under […]
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BudgetMulti-Scenario DoD Budget Perplexes, Concerns SASC
One day after the Pentagon released its budget request for fiscal year 2015, a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing highlighted the difficulties of long-term planning in an uncertain fiscal environment: […]
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BudgetQDR Will Be Released With Budget Or Soon After, Will Be Fiscally Constrained
The Defense Department will submit its Quadrennial Defense Review to Congress either with the budget request on March 4 or shortly thereafter, though the report will not quite meet its […]
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CongressModernization Efforts Critical, No Room For Sequestration Delays, Haney Says
Sequestration would have a “dangerous” effect on the U.S. Strategic Command and its ability to defend the country, STRATCOM Commander Adm. Cecil Haney and members of the Senate Armed Services […]
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CongressGreater Information Sharing Required To Counter Diffuse Terrorist Threat, Johnson Says
The terrorist threat facing the nation is becoming more diffuse and in the case of individuals that are self-radicalizing even harder to detect so continuing to improve information sharing within […]
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CongressMcCain: Work’s Support of LCS ‘Makes Me Wonder About Your Qualifications’
The Senate Armed Services Committee took up the issues of acquisition reform and accountability during the confirmation hearing for the prospective deputy secretary of defense, Robert Work. Sen. John McCain […]