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The Pentagon's fiscal year 2013 request for the baseline budget and war spending seeks $178.8 billion for the development and purchase of new weapons and technology, including $109.1 billion for procurement and $69.7 billion for research and development.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said today he remains confident in a report that is drawing scrutiny from the Defense Department inspector general for blaming a fatal F-22A Raptor crash on the pilot despite a malfunction in the aircraft's oxygen-supply system.
Cementing key acquisition lessons and reviewing the Defense Department's campaign to bolster its buying power are among acting DOD procurement chief Frank Kendall's top priorities for the year.
An F-35 Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft that had been grounded resumed flying Friday for the first time since Jan. 26, according to a statement released over the weekend by the program office.
The Defense Department committed "acquisition malpractice" by putting the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter into production years before the first test flight, acting Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall said today.
In new letters to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, 41 members of Congress are warning that U.S. financial support to Egypt could be withheld due to raids by the Egyptian government on non-governmental organizations.
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. James Winnefeld, the service secretaries and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos will today provide closed, classified briefings on budget issues to both the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee, said Pentagon spokesman Capt. John Kirby.
A delegation from the Egyptian defense ministry will meet this week with U.S. counterparts, including Joseph McMillan, principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, Lt. Gen. Terry Wolff, the Joint Staff's director of strategic plans and policy and Vice Adm. Harry Harris, assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Pentagon spokesman Capt John Kirby told reporters today.
The Pentagon's next Quadrennial Defense Review will be shaped largely by how Congress grapples with the federal debt and who wins the White House in 2012, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy said today.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos released a statement early this morning on the Pentagon's fiscal year 2013 budget request.
Acting Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall has signed a new acquisition decision memorandum laying out key guidance and cost targets for the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program.
The Defense Department's $525 billion fiscal year 2013 budget request cuts F-35 Joint Strike Fighter procurement quantities, reduces funding for the Army's Ground Combat Vehicle program because of a delay caused by a contract dispute, and curtails the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Elevated Netted Sensor System due to concerns about its cost and operational mobility, states a DOD white paper released today.
President Obama has signed a National Strategy for Global Supply Chain Security that sets U.S. policy to strengthen the global supply chain.
Toward the end of his State of the Union speech, President Obama included a plug for cybersecurity legislation that the administration proposed last year.
President Obama has announced his intent to nominate individuals to several Pentagon leadership posts subject to Senate confirmation.
Weapons testing is on the agenda for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter this year, according to test pilot Lt. Col. Matthew Kelly, the program's flight operations leader.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey today signed version 1.0 of the Pentagon's new Joint Operational Access Concept, which "proposes a concept for how joint forces will achieve operational access in the face of armed opposition by a variety of potential enemies and under a variety of conditions, as part of a broader national approach."
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) today renewed his call for the Obama Administration to create a panel of experts outside of government to review U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Military leaders are rushing new weapons into operational testing despite signs the systems are not ready, the Pentagon's top tester warns in a new report that spotlights big problems threatening to undermine an array of major programs.
The Navy decided not to fund the worst-case $1.1 billion estimate for the cost overrun on the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), Navy acquisition executive Sean Stackley said today.