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Defense News

Nominations for National Guard leaders languish, triggering concerns as top officers retire

The top four officers of the National Guard Bureau have left or are set to retire, and no nominations for their replacements have been confirmed by the Senate.

Federal Newscast

Senate version of NDAA to require automatic draft registration for all citizens

Pay

Proposed 2% federal pay raise gets support in 2025 defense authorization bill

Defense

Military families request end to Senate hold on DoD nominations

Air Force

Air Force to pause bonuses and PCS moves

Defense

What Congress wants Defense to look like in 2024 takes shape

Defense News

House, Senate committees approve 2024 NDAA, including 5.2% pay raise

Pentagon Austin

Defense

Defense officials say a year-long continuing resolution would be 'The Bad Place'

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is interviewed about the Relay, an electric autonomous vehicle, in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The future of transportation arrived in northern Virginia, looking like a big blue toaster on wheels that can seat six and drive itself through the region’s notorious traffic. State and local officials debuted the Relay system Thursday, an all-electric, autonomous vehicle that will provide free shuttle rides back and forth from the Dunn Loring Metrorail stop to the bustling Mosaic District in Fairfax County, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Workforce

Language to block future Schedule F absent from compromise version of NDAA

Lloyd Austin, Mark Milley

Federal Newscast

House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders reach an agreement on NDAA

Stephanie Miller

Defense

Several military branches poised to miss recruitment targets for fiscal 2022

FILE - The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. The Air Force has filed criminal charges against an airman in connection with an April explosion that injured U.S. troops at a base in eastern Syria. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Contracts/Awards

A plan emerges to lower the prices on military spare parts

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Rhyan Acey performs maintenance on the AN/TSQ-180 Milstar Communications Vehicle July 30, 2021, at the 233rd Space Group, Greeley Air National Guard Station, Greeley, Colorado. The 233rd Space Group was the first National Guard unit to assume a U.S. Space Command mission. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Amanda Geiger)

Space Operations

Space National Guard would have low initial price tag

Congress

Congress

Three things to watch in the House 2023 NDAA

Early morning summer sunrise as seen from the Lincoln Memorial while looking toward the Washington Monument in Washington, DC.

Congress

Defense funding topline up in the air for 2023 after committees release bills

An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 34th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron departs after conducting an aerial refueling.

Air Force

Air Force thinking of new ways to handle 'black swan' events in acquisition

David Berteau

Contracting

Defense Industrial Base faces short and long term challenges

Mark Milley

Defense

DoD's budget inflation story is more complicated than you think

Defense- Space Force

Defense

DoD budget contains big pay raise and largest research investment ever

Special Salary rate

Federal Newscast

VA's biggest union already pushing back on agency's closure plans

Space Command

Space Operations

SPACECOM doesn't even have a formal office, but it's in the center of future conflict

Arnold Punaro

Defense

The military has a hard time doing its job when Congress doesn't do its job

Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division used the latest prototype of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) during a training exercise in October at Fort Pickett, Va. The event was part of a larger Soldier Touch Point, the third major milestone in the development and testing of the IVAS, which will undergo one more STP in the spring before initial fielding next year. (U.S. Army Photo by Bridgett Siter)

Army

Army's IVAS program under scrutiny from Congress, lawmakers withhold funds

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