Pentagon
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PentagonNational Defense Strategy Panel Urges Reforms, Lifting Spending Cap To Avoid ‘Shift In China’s Favor’
The commission tasked with reviewing the Biden administration’s National Defense Strategy (NDS) has called for removing the debt limit deal’s spending cap and boosting defense investments in the coming years, […]
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PentagonPentagon Overvalued Weapons Aid To Ukraine By Another $2 Billion, GAO Finds
The Pentagon has discovered it overvalued weapons aid provided to Ukraine by another $2 billion, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. The disclosure is part of a […]
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Business/FinancialDoD Strategic Capital Office Wants Feedback From Lenders, Companies On Loan Program
The Defense Department’s new Office of Strategic Capital (OSC) on Wednesday issued two Requests for Information (RFI) to financial institutions and companies seeking feedback related to a loan program being […]
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PentagonMaritime Domain Awareness, Communications Still Key In Latest DoD Arctic Strategy
Enhancing maritime domain awareness and communications capabilities remain hallmarks of Defense Department’s updated Arctic strategy, which also maintains the “monitor-and-respond” approach in pursuit of U.S. interests and preserving stability in […]
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Business/FinancialCulture Within DoD Remains Biggest Obstacle To Success For Startups, DIU Chief Says
The way more non-traditional defense companies will grow their business with the Defense Department is for more of them to be successful in doing so, which will provide more courage […]
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Pentagon
DoD To Issue Classified Plan Later This Summer To Implement Industrial Base Strategy
The Defense Department last Friday released an interim report on actions it has taken so far to implement its recent National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) and plans later this summer […]
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Air ForceDoD Review Of Sentinel Finds Further Cost Increases, Schedule Delays; Program To Be Restructured
The Air Force’s next-generation ICBM will continue but will be restructured amid further cost increases and schedule delays and the decision in 2020 to initiate the engineering and manufacturing development […]
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Business/FinancialNational Security Reform Program Established by Stimson Center
The Stimson Center has established the National Security Reform Program as a vehicle to expose “waste in the military budget while offering pragmatic, forward-thinking perspectives on security policy issues – […]
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Air ForceHigher Prices for 19 B-21s to Follow 21 in Five Lot LRIP Could Help Northrop Grumman Stave Off Losses on Program
The U.S. Air Force and Northrop Grumman [NOC] are negotiating prices for 19 B-21 Raider stealth bombers to follow the 21 scheduled for five lots of low-rate initial production (LRIP), […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
DIU Plans Dozens Of Solicitations In Coming Months To Spend FY ’24 funds
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) on Thursday announced the strategic allocation for its $983 million fiscal year 2024 budget and said it plans to issue around two dozen solicitations in […]
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