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The House Armed Services Committee is proposing to leave some funding on the table and deal with it in April.
April 21, 2016 -
A top Democrat said an active duty military pay raise of 2.1 percent could compromise much needed readiness.
April 20, 2016 -
Beginnings of the defense authorization bill call for a 2.1 percent raise for active military members and a 27,000 increase in troops.
April 20, 2016 -
National security expert and former congressman Mike Rogers said he wants intelligence agencies to be more aggressive in information gathering, and for everyone else to let them.
March 31, 2016 -
Dakota Wood, senior research fellow for Defense Programs at the Heritage Foundation, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin how the Defense Department defines modernization and how that differs from what it calls "new capabilities".
March 25, 2016 -
Defense analysts think the National Commission on the Future of the Army could have been bolder in its recommendations.
January 29, 2016 -
The National Commission on the Future of the Army suggested keeping the active duty Army size minimum at 450,000 and increasing multi-component integration.
January 29, 2016 -
The Navy launched its year-long green initiative that will use alternative fuels and procurement practices to make the service more fuel efficient.
January 20, 2016 -
The Pentagon bolsters its plea for $1 trillion in nuclear modernization funds as the weapons age and funding is limited.
December 07, 2015 -
Somebody's got to keep tabs on all of the cybersecurity breaches that hit federal agencies. One of the people taking up that grim task is researcher Riley Walters of the Heritage Foundation. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about his latest report.
December 03, 2015 -
The Marine Corps' information warfare chief will look into information operations and offensive weapons.
November 13, 2015 -
Washington produces lots of opinions about the nation's military power and where it stands in relation to what's going on in the world. Most of them lack coherence, consistency and objectivity. That's according to Dakota Wood, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He's come up with a deeply researched index of U.S. military strength, just released. He spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
October 30, 2015 -
The Marine Corps’ Deputy Commandant said the investments in cyber and information warfare will make up for fewer Marines.
October 28, 2015 -
In a recent memo Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall gives milestone decision authority of some programs to the military service secretaries.
September 18, 2015 Steve Bucci of the Heritage Foundation and Bryan Clark of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments count down the week's top federal stories with Francis Rose.
August 21, 2015