Budget
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Navy/USMCNavy Preparing For Year-Long CR
The Secretary of the Navy has directed plans to prepare for a potential one-year continuing resolution (CR), should delayed defense appropriations not get resolved by the end of the year. […]
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BudgetCBO: Future Constrained Budgets. Rising O&M Costs to Continue to Impact DoD Procurement
Despite the U.S. military requesting and receiving near-record budgets in recent years, rising costs in each of its funding categories will continue to apply pressure on procurement and research-and-development funding […]
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Air ForceReport: Air Force Should Pivot Toward Smaller, ‘Rebalanced’ Force That Will Require Tough Tradeoffs
The Air Force should alter its planned force structure, the new assets in development and the proposed mix of legacy aircraft it plans to keep if it is to maintain […]
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CongressSASC Chair Prepping ‘Skinny’ NDAA in Event of Failure to Approve Conference Bill
The leader of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) plans to introduce a stripped-down version of the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) next week as a last-ditch […]
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BudgetSenate Tees Up Potential Vote on Appropriations Bills Including Defense Next Week
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed cloture on the motion to proceed with two fiscal year 2020 bills Oct. 17, opening up the possibility of the Senate voting next […]
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ArmyExtended CR Would Affect Army’s Major Weapons Development, Engagement With Small Business
Top Army officials leading the service’s modernization push said Wednesday operating under an extended continuing resolution into 2020 could alter the timeline of major programs, such as hypersonic weapon development, […]
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ArmyArmy May Lose More Than $7 Billion In Buying Power Due To CR, McCarthy Says
The Army’s top civilian said Monday the service could lose more than $7 billion in buying power under an extended continuing resolution (CR), calling on Congress to pass a budget […]
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Air ForceAir Force to Award Northrop Grumman Up to $4.8 Billion For Global Hawk Modernization
The Air Force intends to award Northrop Grumman [NOC] a sole-source contract for the ongoing development and production of all RQ-4 Global Hawk variants, as well as modernization, retrofit and […]
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CongressTop HASC Republican Thornberry to Retire from Congress in 2020
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the former chairman and current ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, said Sept. 30 that he would not be running for reelection in 2020. […]
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Air ForceUncertain Path Ahead for Air Force Light Attack Experiment
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – Nearly three years since the Air Force first announced plans to experiment with procuring an off-the-shelf, low-cost light attack aircraft for use in permissive environments, the […]