Defense Watch

Congress Returns. Fresh off its week-long Memorial Day recess, Congress plans to receive testimony from military service leaders on the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2018 budget request. The Senate Armed Services […]

Quiet Congress. Congress held a flurry of hearings the week of May 22 to review the Trump administration’s newly unveiled fiscal year 2018 budget request. The week of May 29 is expected […]

Joint Chiefs. President Donald Trump has nominated Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford and Air Force Gen. Paul Selva to continue as chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the Joint Chiefs of […]

NASA Rocket Delayed. The first flight of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule is being delayed due to production glitches, agency officials told reporters May 12. […]

Army Secretary. Mark Green, President Trump’s second nomination for Army Secretary on Friday withdrew his name from consideration. He is the second person Trump has tapped for the position that has […]

F-35 Bulgaria. Two F-35As arrived in Bulgaria April 28 from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England, according to a Lockheed Martin statement. The deployment allows the pilots and supporting airmen the […]

Recoilless Rifle. The Army’s Project Manager Soldier Weapons (PM SW) wants a “reusable shoulder fired recoilless weapon system and family of ammunition,” the service announces on the government’s contracting website. […]

DoD Reform. As part of a Trump administration effort to streamline the federal government, the White House Office of Management and Budget has posted an online survey asking the public […]

Green Tapped for Army Secretary. President Donald Trump says he intends to nominate Mark Green, a medical doctor and state senator in Tennessee, to be Secretary of the Army. Green […]

Army IT Review. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley is conducting a detailed, “end-to-end” review of the service’s information networks to look for ways to increase their effectiveness, identify […]