The U.S. still lags China and Russia in development and deployment of hypersonic weapon systems, and it will take a huge investment in education, test capacity and manufacturing capabilities to catch up, experts and members of Congress said in a streaming seminar broadcast by The ...
Congress
The Senate will deliberate over the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act in the coming weeks after leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee leaders took the annual policy bill to the floor. And as lawmakers debate the legislation, they’ll also have to contend with more ...
Nearly 50 members of Congress have urged Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III to fund a new phase of development for advanced fighter engines in the fiscal 2024 budget, sending a letter to the Pentagon on Oct. 7. The letter, signed by 49 lawmakers from ...
Congress passed a continuing resolution to fund the federal government through Dec. 16, avoiding a shutdown but ensuring that the Pentagon and other federal agencies will yet again start the fiscal year without a new budget. The continuing resolution will mostly keep spending levels frozen ...
Th Senate confirmed the Space Force's second Chief of Space Operations. Lt. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman will pin on a fourth star and take command of the Space Force, succeeding Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond. Saltzman will take over the role after serving as the ...
Congress needs to do a better job of providing the Air Force with steady, consistent funding; the Air Force needs to find ways to develop programs faster; and the two need to work together to ensure that the service can build capacity for both the ...
China boasts a “bonafide” nuclear triad and has ascended to the status of nuclear near-peer adversary, Gen. Anthony J. Cotton, head of Air Force Global Strike Command and nominee to head U.S. Strategic Command, told lawmakers. Cotton told the Senate Armed Services Committee during his ...
The Pentagon's upcoming 2023 fiscal year budget should go up at least $42 billion to $815 billion to combat rising inflation, warned three former Department of Defense comptrollers in a whitepaper released Tuesday by National Defense Industrial Association. NDIA also raised similar concerns in a ...
The Space Force doesn’t just need a more resilient satellite architecture, the service’s potential new leader told lawmakers Sept. 13—it needs more and better ways to test and train its Guardians for the future of a contested domain.