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Budget

U.S. Needs Better Investment, Organization In Reconstruction Efforts, DoD Official Says

Friday, August 30th, 2013

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The United States needs to improve its foreign nation stabilization and reconstruction efforts as they are both “disorganized” and “grossly underfunded” aspects of its national security architecture, the Pentagon’s special inspector general for Iraq (SIGIR) said yesterday. “We invest hundreds of billions of dollars in military to ensure the president has the variety of options he’s now considering regarding military action (in Syria),” SIGIR Stuart Bowen said yesterday at a Defense Writers Group breakfast in Washington. “We invest very little…

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 […]