The Senate Armed Services personnel subcommittee voted July 20 to include New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand’s bill to remove prosecution of serious crimes from the military chain of command in its markup of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, setting up a debate in the ...
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The Air Force will implement changes to its installation development plans within the next five years that are aimed at shoring up each base's vulnerabilities to natural disasters and climate change, a top official said in a congressional hearing July 14. Jennifer L. Miller, acting ...
New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said her bill to remove prosecution of serious crimes from the chain of command is still needed, despite Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III's commitment to do just that. “This is an extremely light touch. It just changes where ...
Party politics may prevent the National Guard from conducting critical training in the final months of the fiscal year unless senators on both sides of the aisle can agree on how to reimburse some $521 million in expenses related to the protection of the Capitol ...
More than 40 F-35s across the U.S. Air Force are currently without engines according to the most recent data, top officials told Congress on July 13. Speaking before the House Armed Services subcommittee on tactical air and land forces, acting Assistant Secretary of the Air ...
The Air Force faces an uphill fight with its plans to cut five units worth of C-130s, largely from the Guard and Reserve. The service, however, says the tactical airlift fleet can afford to absorb some risk and that there could be future lift possibilities ...
Air Force nominee Frank Kendall is one step closer to a major procedural hurdle after agreeing to extend his industry recusal from two years to four years at the behest of Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren. Kendall’s May 25 nomination has been on hold for weeks ...
Michigan Democratic Sen. Gary Peters is holding up Frank Kendall from a nomination vote for Air Force Secretary over the Pentagon’s decision to award the F-35 international training center to Arkansas's Ebbing Air National Guard Base. Michigan’s Selfridge Air National Guard Base possessed “superior qualifications” ...
Donald H. Rumsfeld, who made history as the first man to serve as Secretary of Defense for two Presidents and oversaw the beginning of U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, died June 30 in Taos, N.M., his family announced on social media. He was 88. ...