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Senate Panel Seeks New ‘Innovation Centers’ To Assist Navy Open Architecture

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Thursday, June 30th, 2011

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Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) are directing the Navy to look into standing up a new development mechanism to further improve the sea service’s efforts to stand up more open architecture (OA)-based systems. As part of the committee’s draft of the fiscal year 2012 defense authorization bill, panel members have requested Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to provide a report to the congressional defense committees on the new strategy, to be included in the Navy’s upcoming FY ’13…

Congress

House Republicans’ Blueprint For Reconciliation 3.0 Includes $60 Billion For Defense

House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for a third reconciliation bill that includes $60 billion for defense, a figure slightly below the Trump administration’s request to cover Iran war […]

Congress

Senate Dems Block Consideration Of FY ‘27 NDAA Over Iran War Concerns

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to advance consideration of the chamber’s $1.14 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). The procedural vote was 46-50, failing to reach […]

Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) raised concerns at a hearing on Tuesday about the majority of funds in the $153 billion first reconciliation bill being unobligated thus […]

Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]