:

New AF Strategic Systems PEO Standing Up In Coming Months

DDN

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

SHARE:

By Emelie Rutherford The Air Force is setting up a new program-executive office (PEO) for strategic systems that is intended to ensure future acquisitions jibe with the service's nuclear- sustainment efforts. Brig. Gen. Everett Thomas, commander of the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, told House lawmakers yesterday that his service's leadership has granted approval to establish the office, led by a flag-level program-executive officer, in the spring or summer of this year. The PEO was recommended in a September 2008…

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]