House narrowly passes NDAA after Democrats balk at culture war amendments
Many pro-defense Democrats voted against the traditionally bipartisan NDAA, after Republicans added conservative social riders to the bill.
House passes NDAA, ducking culture wars, sending bill to White House
The $886 billion policy bill will go to President Joe Biden's desk for final signature, but final passage of the annual spending bills remains unclear.
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Cybersecurity skills don’t come from a manual, but from practical hands-on training
Cybersecurity skills must evolve in near-real time as Zero Day threats continue and AI provides new challenges.
Hypersonics to shipyards: A round up of AUKUS provisions floating on the Hill
As AUKUS develops, multiple congressional committees are all angling to help shape how it will play out.
House Passes NDAA, With $24B In Extra Pentagon Funding and Strings Attached
The NDAA easily passed and now heads to the Senate.
House Passes Iron Dome Funding, As Israel Watches Warily
After three days of drama, the bill passed with massive support, and now heads to the Senate.
Can The Army Convince Congress It’s Learned From FCS?
The reboot of the Bradley replacement reminded many on the Hill of past procurement disasters like the Future Combat System. Can the Army exorcise the specter of FCS?
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2019 Forecast: Budget Battles & Confirmation Wars
Trump's pick to replace Sec. Jim Mattis will be a key indicator about where the president wants to drive the department -- and the confirmation process will show what the Senate will accept -- while the defense budget may be collateral damage from a bitterly divided Congress.
Defense Bill Closer, But Risks Remain
Thursday's overwhelming Senate vote to pass the bill clears a major hurdle in getting the budget passed on time. But Not only do the House and Senate have little time to knock out final appropriations language and vote on it, but President Trump has signaled he wouldn't be opposed to a government shutdown this fall, which would bring everything to a grinding halt.
The US Needs A ‘Coast Guard’ For Space: Semper Paratus Exteriores Spatium
A battle has been underway for several years now over who will become the FAA of space and how they will do the job. Some wanted the FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Tranportation, which boasts the great acronym, FAST. Some wanted NOAA or NASA. Most did not want the Air Force, which has had a […]
Trouble For Trump: Fixing Sequester, DoD Budget May Be A ‘Bloodbath’
SIMI VALLEY, CALIF.: “I don’t how we buy it back without a real bloodbath,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham. “It” is the $500 billion, 10-year cut to defense spending imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011, popularly (mis)called sequestration. Graham, one of Donald Trump’s harshest critics in the GOP, is not alone in thinking the […]
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NDAA Veto Override Vote In Doubt; CR Deadline Looms
UPDATED 4:40 pm with Bob Work comments WASHINGTON: The budget deal saved the day for defense. Now let’s never do that again. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 bought two precious years of stability, House Armed Services chairman Mac Thornberry and Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work said today at the Defense One summit, but it hurt like […]
House Divided: Budget Deal Passes, But HASC Leaders Split
UPDATED Deal passed, Forbes voted “no” WASHINGTON: With hours to go before the House vote on the budget deal — assuming it doesn’t get derailed — the Republican caucus is deeply divided. A central selling point is the deal ups the defense budget, but one leading legislator on national security issues, House seapower subcommittee chairman Rep. […]
Budget Deal Saves The Day For Defense – If It Passes
WASHINGTON: The budget deal announced late last night is unmixed good news for the Defense Department, our sources say — for a year, at least, and if it actually passes the ever-more-erratic House of Representatives. “This ‘October Surprise’ is a better deal for defense than I expected,” said one of Washington’s leading budget experts, Todd […]
The Price of Delay: US Navy To Challenge Chinese Claims
UPDATED 9:45 am Tuesday with details of operation & Chinese response WASHINGTON: After five months of hints, declarations, mixed messages, and dithering, the US is reportedly set to challenge Chinese claims in the South China Sea. But the months of signaling will cost us. What might have been a low-key “freedom of navigation operation” — sailing, […]