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Budget

HASC Saves A-10 Fleet, Adds 8 MQ-9s For Air Force, Freezes Nat’l Guard Apache Transfer

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, May 8th, 2014

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HASC Saves A-10 Fleet, Adds 8 MQ-9s For Air Force, Freezes Nat’l Guard Apache Transfer

The A-10 Thunderbolt II. (Photo: Air Force)

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) voted 61-0 to move its annual defense bill to the House floor, after a 14-hour markup that reversed several cuts the Pentagon tried to make and largely prioritized having more platforms and a less ready force over a smaller but more prepared military. As the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act markup dragged late into Wednesday night, lawmakers reversed several key decisions that helped keep the Pentagon’s budget under the congressionally mandated $521…

Congress

House Sends Dec. 11 CR With Ship Construction Funds To Trump’s Desk For Final Signature

The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open through Dec. 11, sending the temporary funding measure that also includes funds to support ongoing shipbuilding […]

Missile Defense

Guetlein On Golden Dome: ‘We Cannot Protect This Nation And Bankrupt It At The Same Time’

While there has been criticism among missile defense advocates of Golden Dome’s development pace after the signing of an executive order in January last year, Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein, […]

Missile Defense

Interview with Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus

Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), a co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus in Congress and a member of the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces panel, discusses the transformative defense investments […]

Space

Space Force PAE For Infrastructure Completing Move To Colorado Springs

U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command’s (SSC) Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) for infrastructure–a $4 billion contracting hub for SSC–is completing a move from Los Angeles Air Force Base, Calif. to […]