While service in-fighting for budget share is a perennial fact of political life, this year’s version resembles the fictional, to-the-death “Hunger Games,” as all the services struggle ...
https://breakingdefense.com/2020/01/budget-battles-ic-costs-mean-air-force-gets-short-straw/
In other words, the fault is not with the OCO mechanism, but in many cases, with members of Congress who are critiquing its use.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/12/csis-bad-idea-blaming-oco-for-defense-budget-blunders/
Pentagon officials seek to show they are reorienting to great power competition with China by shifting money under the flat defense topline. The goal is to spend a more defense dollars on hig...
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/11/secdef-esper-dont-make-gates-mistakes-with-night-court/
Senate Republicans and Democrats remain far apart on using DoD money for the border wall — so far that the government might not gets its 2020 budget on time,
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/09/will-trumps-wall-mean-a-delay-in-defense-funding/
The secretary heads first to CENTCOM to hammer out the details of Operation Sentinel, a plan to monitor and protect shipping from Iran in Persian Gulf.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/07/day-one-esper-praises-budget-deal-warns-on-china-tech-iran/
With a two-year budget deal the Pentagon is getting what it wanted: budget certainty. But that certainty comes at a cost.
The Trump Administration argues the HASC’s cuts to the defense policy bill would hamper missile detection and defense priorities.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/07/trump-threatens-ndaa-veto-if-house-cuts-stand/
The HASC wants an independent cost estimate on the F-35 and some detail — any detail — on the plan to replace AWACS. It’s also a little curious about robot tanks.
In a markup of the 2020 defense budget, the HASC tells the Pentagon to keep developing new tech but inform the Hill about how and where it might be used.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/06/hasc-to-dod-well-do-the-money-you-do-a-tech-strategy/
Rebuffed by the Army and GAO in its bid to re-engine aging helicopters, ATEC has gone over their heads to Congress and asked legislators for a second chance.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/05/atec-heads-to-hill-for-itep-engine-dough/
Undersecretary Ryan McCarthy says the service’s new five-year budget plan will be finished within weeks.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/05/army-big-6-gets-10b-more-over-2021-2025/
One of Washington’s leading budget experts explains how bipartisan supporters of Pentagon funding will steamroll the Budget Control Act.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/05/defense-spending-will-bust-bca-caps-mark-cancian/
The senators’ draft of the annual defense bill puts a new emphasis on technological competition, including industrial policy moves to strengthen US companies.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/05/ndaa-2020-sasc-emphasizes-tech-race-with-china/
SASC wants the Air Force and DoD “to come back to the oversight committee every single month” to explain how they are standing up the new Space Force — if it is finally approved by Cong...
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/05/sasc-oks-space-force-but-imposes-tight-oversight/
House Appropriators add millions of dollars to the National Institute of Standards & Technology’s work on AI, cybersecurity, quantum computing, 3D printing, and 5G telecommunications.
https://breakingdefense.com/2019/05/hac-pumps-up-nist-research-on-emerging-tech/