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Thornberry Compromises: $631B For Defense
UPDATED: Harrison says Senate Dems are key CAPITOL HILL: The House Armed Services Committee will propose $631.5 billion in funding for defense, HASC staff told reporters this afternoon. That is about...
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‘Indispensable’ Palau Deal At Risk; Will China Get Access?
“Palau is indispensable to our national security and funding the compact is key to our strategic presence in the region.” That’s what the Defense Department’s 2018 budget request says — but the House...
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Army Needs $45B Of Smart Weapons: Hellfire, GMLRS, ATACMS, Patriot, THAAD
ARLINGTON: Against terrorists in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, US forces are firing smart weapons like Hellfire missiles as fast as industry can build them — or faster. Against a well-armed adversary...
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House, Senate Only 0.6% Apart On Defense Budget: $704B vs. $708B
WASHINGTON: Despite reported differences, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees propose almost identical toplines for national security spending. In an apples to apples comparison, after...
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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...
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The Russians Are Coming: The Army’s Best Case For Modernization
WASHINGTON: The US Army has blown billions on weapons that never got built, so Congress is understandably wary of funding Army modernization. A senior Hill aide told us today that if the service wants...
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Senate OKs ‘Indispensable’ Palau Compact In NDAA
WASHINGTON: If the Pacific is the most important theater, then the islands of Palau are surely among the most important pieces of real estate for the US. As we reported earlier, however, the House...
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Army Must Sell Network Strategy To Congress: Speer
ARLINGTON: The Army’s no-holds-barred study of its network shortfalls should produce a comprehensive strategy to solve them — a strategy that can withstand the scrutiny of a skeptical Congress. That’s...
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Army To Update 400+ Units’ Software In 28 Months
Hate updating the software on your smart phone? Then have compassion for the Army, which is trying to standardize its computer systems across more than 400 units in the next 28 months. The objective is...
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Upgunned Strykers Open Fire At Aberdeen – But Fielding Will Be Slow
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND: Two years after the Europe-based 2nd Cavalry Regiment requested more firepower to deter the Russians, 30 millimeter shells and Javelin missiles thundered downrange here at the...
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Thornberry Predicts CR Through ‘At Least December’
ARLINGTON: The “disheartened” chairman of the House Armed Services Committee predicted this morning that Congress will once again miss its October 1st deadline to pass a federal budget, leaving the...
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House Will Pass All Approps Bills This Week: Rep. Granger
ARLINGTON: House leadership wants to pass all the outstanding spending bills by Sunday, defense appropriations chairwoman Kay Granger said this afternoon. “We’re going to do… all the rest of them this...
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Mattis, McCain Battle CR; McCain Battles Cancer
WASHINGTON: As Sen. John McCain of Arizona readies for what is almost certainly the last battle of his illustrious life, he appears to be casting aside tactical political positions and striking for the...
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‘So Fricking Stupid’: Adam Smith Predicts Year-Long CR
UPDATED with more from Rep. Smith WASHINGTON: The congressional budget process is headed for “a complete meltdown” in December, and the most likely outcome is a year-long Continuing Resolution, the top...
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Overburdened Navy Must Just Say ‘No’: Spencer
PENTAGON: How will the new Navy Secretary get people to understand the fleet is being worked too hard? “Because we’ll start every conversation with 17 dead sailors,” Richard Spencer told reporters...
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Army Plans To Halt WIN-T Buy; Shuffle Network $$
WASHINGTON: After almost a decade of reporting on the Army’s crucial networks, I’d thought they’d started to get things right. Boy, was I wrong. At a hearing this afternoon of the House Armed Services...
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Senate OKs ‘Indispensable’ Palau Compact In NDAA
WASHINGTON: If the Pacific is the most important theater, then the islands of Palau are surely among the most important pieces of real estate for the US. As we reported earlier, however, the House...
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Army Must Sell Network Strategy To Congress: Speer
ARLINGTON: The Army’s no-holds-barred study of its network shortfalls should produce a comprehensive strategy to solve them — a strategy that can withstand the scrutiny of a skeptical Congress. That’s...
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Army To Update 400+ Units’ Software In 28 Months
Hate updating the software on your smart phone? Then have compassion for the Army, which is trying to standardize its computer systems across more than 400 units in the next 28 months. The objective is...
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Upgunned Strykers Open Fire At Aberdeen – But Fielding Will Be Slow
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND: Two years after the Europe-based 2nd Cavalry Regiment requested more firepower to deter the Russians, 30 millimeter shells and Javelin missiles thundered downrange here at the...
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