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House Approps Chair Promises Pentagon ‘Flexibility’ On O&M Funds
Legislators will probably loosen some rules on federal spending to help the Pentagon cope with Congress’s failure to pass funding bills until six months into the fiscal year. Budget dysfunction has...
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Wittman, Courtney Question Omnibus Ship Numbers, Funding
Wait — doesn’t this omnibus fund 14 new ships for the Navy, compared to 13 in the National Defense Authorization Act and just eight in President Trump’s request? Yes, but not all ships are created...
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Crucial Polish Missile Defense Site Delayed Two Years: MDA
With the Pentagon and White House increasingly worried about ballistic missile threats from “rogue” states and peer competitors, the Polish site is increasingly critical.
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Coast Guard Fears Two-Year Budget Boost Just A Blip: Adm. Zukunft
Adm. Zukunft says he doesn’t want to return to the old culture of “martyrdom” when the service prided itself on doing more with less even as it ran its equipment and people into the ground.
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Hull Watch: 355 Ship Navy Might Take Until 2052, Navy Official Concedes
The Navy is going wobbly on its 355 ship fleet, but Capitol Hill doesn’t want to hear it.
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Rep. Gabbard Pushes For Heftier Hawaiian Missile Defenses
Pentagon planners aren’t only worried about North Korean ICBMs, but Chinese hypersonics and medium-rage missiles. That means, according to analysts, that an array of distributed systems are needed to...
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Navy Looks Outside Budget To Help Build New Boomers
The Navy is moving ahead with its Ohio replacement submarines, and is using a little-noticed budgetary gimmick to pay for some of it.
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Disaster Averted – For Now: The Pentagon In 2018
The Trump Administration managed to avoid starting wars or crippling NATO in fiscal year 2018, writes CSIS scholar Kathleen Hicks in this op-ed, but as we stagger into 2019, the fates of Defense...
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Army Awards Northrop $289M For IBCS Missile Defense Network
Chief of Staff Mark Milley declared air and missile defense the Army’s No. 5 priority — one of the Big Six which the service is pushing to accelerate, if necessary at the expense of everything else in...
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No, The Pentagon Did NOT Waste $28 Billion
One of our primary goals here at Breaking Defense is to try and avoid the madness of the daily news cycle and tell our readers what is really happening, as best as any human can tell at any time. The...
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Manpower, Parts Shortages Would Hinder Navy In Wartime
Faced with erratic funding from Congress, the Navy has pursued cost-efficiency so rigorously that it has cut corners and compromised peacetime safety and, very possibly, wartime performance. Crews are...
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SecAF: Don’t Expect Large Budget Increases After 2019; $2.4B Set For Light...
The Air Force placed a $2.4 billion placeholder in the 2019 budget to buy Light Attack Aircraft over the next five years, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told reporters this morning.
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Army Hopes For $6.8B From FY18 Budget Deal: 70% For Modernization
UPDATED: Adds SecArmy Esper Roundtable PENTAGON: The figures aren’t final, but the Army hopes to get about $6.8 billion in additional funding for fiscal year 2018 thanks to the recently concluded...
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AFSOC Adds Artificial Intelligence To Armory; Still Eyes Lasers
AFA ORLANDO: Air Force Special Operations Command doesn’t speak much in public, for obvious reasons. The commander pretty much appears once a year here to speak with reporters, and for the last three...
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Military Force Structure: Trade-Offs, Trade-Offs, Trade-Offs
Mark Cancian, a member of the Breaking Defense Board of Contributors, knows budgets. He used to help build the defense budget at the Office of Management and Budget, the largely unheralded center of...
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