Senate Armed Services Committee
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Congressional staffers addressed some of the President's concerns with the 2017 defense authorization bill.
June 21, 2016 -
The Air Force is down 4,000 maintainers and it won't see them in full force for quite some time.
June 16, 2016 -
Secretary of Defense Ash Carter takes umbrage with two specific provisions in the 2017 defense authorization bills.
May 18, 2016 -
The Senate Armed Services Committee continues pushing for acquisition reform in the 2017 defense authoritarian bill.
May 17, 2016 -
The Senate version of the defense authorization bill has a much more modest approach to enrollment fees for TRICARE users.
May 16, 2016 -
The Senate version of the NDAA gets rid of the undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and cuts Senior Executive Officer staff by 25 percent.
May 13, 2016 -
A Senate panel's version of the 2017 defense authorization bill keeps the military pay raise at 1.6 percent, but expands some health care options.
May 10, 2016 -
Military personnel leaders worry enlisted members will suffer under new retirement plan, given paycheck-to-paycheck earning levels in first few years of their careers.
March 09, 2016 -
Defense Secretary Ash Carter punched back at Congress after some lawmakers doubted the necessity of the Force of the Future initiative.
February 29, 2016 -
Sen. Jim Inhofe asked the Armed Services Committee to delay voting out Brad Carson's nomination for undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness until allegations of a hostile work environment are checked out.
February 25, 2016 -
DoD says it wants public-private partnerships to form the basis of future space launches. But current congressional mandates are narrowly focused on breaking the decades-old habit of using Russian rocket engines.
January 28, 2016 -
The Pentagon and the IG charged with Afghanistan reconstruction oversight sparred Wednesday over alleged obstructions to the IG's probe into a controversial reconstruction program.
January 21, 2016 -
Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says he plans to begin divesting the Joint Staff of some of its current responsibilities after the start of the new year.
December 24, 2015 -
Military undersecretaries have limited time to work as their branches' chief management officers before the next administration takes charge.
December 22, 2015 -
Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Navy to cut back on capacity and invest more in capability in a letter last week.
December 21, 2015