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The House Armed Services Committee’s draft of the next defense authorization bill supports hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funding for Army procurement of counter-drone capabilities. HASC also included […]

House authorizers’ draft FY 2025 defense authorization bill includes several strings for the Navy reducing certain forces or fleet numbers, including restrictions on more than two cruiser retirements. The draft […]

House authorizers hope to push the Navy to develop a plan to have the Navy be able to re-arm the surface fleet at sea within three years in their draft […]

House defense authorizers are recommending a new pilot effort for the Defense Department’s innovation arm to enable faster testing and evaluation of commercial technologies that could meet warfighters’ needs. Currently, […]

The House Armed Services Committee on Monday released its roughly $895 billion draft version of the next defense policy bill, to include authorizing $849.8 billion for the Pentagon, adhering to […]

Given the widespread use of small and medium-size drones on the battlefield, and the systems needed to counter these unmanned aircraft, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is proposing the […]

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) initial draft of the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Bill (NDAA) added $1 billion to find a second Virginia-class attack submarine (SSN), seemingly […]

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin confirmed on Wednesday the U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel over concerns related to protection of civilians ahead of the planned operation into the […]

The Senate’s top defense appropriator said the Pentagon will require a “bigger number” for its fiscal year 2025 budget topline than the nearly $850 billion requested, cautioning the imposed one […]

The recently passed supplemental funding bill included around $6 billion to boost 155mm artillery ammunition production, double what the Army had requested as the service pushes to build 100,000 such […]