Aerospace Group:

Congress

SASC Members Ask Carter About Speeding Up Acquisition, FMS Processes in Confirmation Hearing

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

SHARE:

SASC Members Ask Carter About Speeding Up Acquisition, FMS Processes in Confirmation Hearing

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter

The Senate Armed Services Committee members aired a number of acquisition concerns in a confirmation hearing with defense secretary-nominee Ashton Carter, noting that weapons development takes too long and weapons sales to allies and partners is too full of red tape.During the hearing, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) told Carter that “you were one of the fathers of the MRAP program...It seems to be that could be a model for what we’re talking about” in terms of providing warfighters with needed…

Congress

Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

Munitions fired in the two-month old “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran represent most of the $25 billion cost the Pentagon has incurred thus far in the conflict, the acting Defense […]

Congress

Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

The Pentagon should be using Anthropic‘s recently announced Mythos artificial intelligence model to spot gaps in cyber security, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesda. “I think the thing that […]

Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), have introduced the Airpower Acceleration Act, which would authorize multi-year procurements of […]

Congress

HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.– Congress’ work to pass $350 billion in reconciliation funds to support the Trump administration’s push for a $1.5 trillion fiscal year 2027 defense topline is “going to […]