Senate Armed Services Committee

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

Many of DoD’s plans and programs will have to wait if the budget goes to a year-long continuing resolution.

Defense

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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

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

Space Operations

(AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Three things to watch in the House 2023 NDAA

Congress

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

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

Congress

An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 34th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron departs after conducting an aerial refueling with a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 28th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron above the Arabian Gulf, Dec. 3, 2019. The KC-135 Stratotanker delivers U.S. Air Forces Central Command a global reach of aerial refueling to support joint and coalition aircraft, providing war-winning airpower throughout the CENTCOM area of responsibility.

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

Air Force

Defense Industrial Base faces short and long term challenges

Contracting

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

Defense

DoD budget contains big pay raise and largest research investment ever

The Defense Department is asking Congress for a $773 billion budget in 2023, which it says is crucial to continuing its concept of “integrated deterrence”…

Defense

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

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Veterans Affairs Department’s largest employees union is raising hackles over a plan to trim back VA facilities.

Federal Newscast

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

Space Operations

U.S. Space Command is dealing with billionaires, rules of engagement and staffing up its offices.