EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon’s RDT&E budget revealed – Which next-gen systems get a cash influx in FY26?
Breaking Defense obtained a copy of the Defense Department's FY26 budget request for RDT&E Programs. Here's what you should know.
Pentagon boosts spending on R&D, JADC2 and cybersecurity in $145B budget
The Defense Department's research, development, test and evaluation budget request represents a 4 percent increase from FY23 levels, according to budget documents.
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Three steps to JADC2: create the joint data layer, incentivize the services to plug-in, exercise it
It took US and coalition forces a decade to network themselves and share data. We can't afford to take 10 years to figure out how to do that when faced with near-peer competitors.
As Republicans push Pentagon over inflation, Austin says FY23 budget is ‘robust’
“For me, this isn’t just about how much money we spend on defense, this is about how we spend the money," SASC ranking member Sen. Jim Inhofe said. "And we need a higher top line because what’s in this budget right now is not nearly enough to make up for lost time.”
Air Force To Pump New Tech Startups With $10M Awards
The Air Force's new investment strategy is designed to "catalyze the commercial market by bringing our military market to bear," says Roper.
House Appropriators Give SecDef Blank Check For $28.6B
WASHINGTON: In a sign of how strange the budget process has become, the House Appropriations Committee has approved a defense spending bill that basically gives Secretary Jim Mattis a $28.6 billion blank check. Scattered across seven different accounts in the base and Overseas Contingency Operations budgets, it’s called the National Defense Restoration Fund, and it makes […]
Michigan: Arsenal of Democracy for dangerous times
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
New SecAf Extols High Tech, But Where’s The $$$?
CAPITOL HILL: Heather Wilson began her first public speech as Air Force Secretary with a paean to technology, highlighting the service’s history of innovation from the B-29 to the F-117 to the F-35. It would have been an unambiguous signal of administration priorities, except the budget doesn’t really back her up. Research and development funding […]
Modernization: Army Leadership Must Seize Initiative
Times are hard for the United States Army. It has experienced a budget decline of almost 50 percent in constant dollars since 2008 as a result of the combined effects of the drawdown of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the caps established in the Budget Control Act of 2011. Army force structure is […]