Pentagon
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Congress
Final Defense Authorization Bill Heads to White House, As Senate GOP Pledges Return to ‘Regular Order’
The $895.2 billion fiscal 2025 defense authorization bill is on its way to President Biden after the Senate passed it early Wednesday afternoon on a vote of 85 to 14. […]
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Air Force
Democrats Introduce Bill to Spur System Sustainment by Military Services
Those in uniform have criticized military services’ outsourcing of sustainment to industry as leading to higher costs, causing repair delays, and lowering military readiness. Last week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), […]
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Congress
Wittman: Pentagon ‘Must Become a Software-Centric Organization’
The relative new kids on the defense block, such as Anduril and Palantir [PLTR], stand to win big, if one reads behind Thursday comments by Rep. Rob Wittman (R-Va.), the […]
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Air Force
Department of Air Force Has 20 Percent More Infrastructure Than Needed, Official Says
The Department of the Air Force (DAF) has 20 percent more infrastructure, including bases, than needed, a department official said on Wednesday. “Fact–we probably have about 20 percent more infrastructure […]
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Advanced / Transformational Technology
CDAO Chief Outlines Needs To Scale Generative AI Use Across DoD Ahead Of Task Force Lima Report
The Defense Department’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) this month will release the findings and recommendations of a task force charged with helping the department make use of […]
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Unmanned Systems
DoD Puts Forth ‘Strategic Ways’ To Counter Unmanned Systems In New Strategy
A new Defense Department strategy to counter the current and evolving threats from drones and other unmanned systems to U.S. forces and installations abroad and domestically lays out five paths […]
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Pentagon
DOGE’s Ramaswamy: Focus On ‘Right Kind’ Of Defense Spending, Invest More In Drones, Hypersonics
A co-leader of the new commission set to advise President-elect Trump on potential cuts to government spending said Wednesday the debate over the Pentagon’s budget topline should focus on ensuring […]
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Budget
Sullivan Outlines Roadmap For Trump, Future Administrations To Continue Strengthening Defense Industrial Base
The Biden administration combined with bipartisan congressional support have launched a resurgence of the U.S. defense industrial base (DIB) but it will take decades of continued effort that requires a […]
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Air Force
Two SASC Democrats Urge Biden Policy Directive Barring Unauthorized Use of Military for Deportations
On Nov. 18, President-elect Trump responded, “True!”, to a post on his Truth Social network by the president of the right wing organization, Judicial Watch, that praised a possible national […]
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Air Force
Musk Comments on F-35 Receive Pushback
While Elon Musk said that the “F-35 design was broken at the requirements level because it was required to be too many things to too many people,” the U.S. Air […]