Senate Armed Services Committee

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.

Defense News

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

Federal Newscast

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

Pay

Military families request end to Senate hold on DoD nominations

Defense

Air Force to pause bonuses and PCS moves

Air Force

What Congress wants Defense to look like in 2024 takes shape

Defense

House Appropriators, Federal workforce, Congress Debt Limit

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

Defense News

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

Defense

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)

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

Workforce

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

Federal Newscast

Several military branches poised to miss recruitment targets for fiscal 2022

Defense

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)

A plan emerges to lower the prices on military spare parts

The Senate version of the 2023 defense authorization bill contains something called a progress payment incentive pilot program to create more transparency…

Contracts/Awards

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 National Guard would have low initial price tag

National Guard space units say they are misaligned when relying on the Air Force.

Space Operations

Three things to watch in the House 2023 NDAA

Congress

The House Armed Services Committee is largely sticking with the Biden vision for the Defense Department next year, however, the 2023 Defense authorization bill still has a long way to go before it makes its way to the president’s desk.