Budget

Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos stressed Thursday the unavoidable need his service has for the Amphibious Combat Vehicle (ACV), indicating he would shield it from budget cuts during fiscal belt-tightening […]

The Air Force will officially end its alternative fuel certification efforts in two to three weeks when the service’s biofuels czar is reassigned to another program. Air Force Alternative Fuels […]

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel provided on Wednesday a summary of the Pentagon’s contingency plan for next year if Congress doesn’t find a way to stop “sequestration” budget cuts, warning of […]

The Air Force did not evaluate, nor establish clear or concise goals, for a two-year old pilot program that was supposed to give it flexibility to hire civilian acquisition personnel […]

Northrop Grumman [NOC] proved in May a new active electronically scanned array (AESA) antenna it developed for the B-2 can establish and maintain communications services with an on-orbit Advanced Extremely […]

Civilian Pentagon employees will be furloughed starting this week, in a move that could reignite the debate over the Pentagon budget cuts in Congress. Because of sequestration–the $500 billion in […]

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) continues to review the Defense Department’s reprogramming actions, and in their most recent letter to the Pentagon Comptroller calls out the Air Force for […]

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said last week it notified Congress of a potential sale of 16 MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and associated parts and training to […]

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has rejected an Army proposal to move money from some programs–$128 million from the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), $171 million from reset of High […]

A key Senate panel wants the Air Force to brief the congressional defense committees on the status of the entire Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) program, which it says is approaching […]