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This morning at the Pentagon, combatant commanders received "a series of briefings on the budget landscape" and discussed a "broad" range of issues in meetings scheduled to give COCOMs an opportunity to provide input concerning long-term investment plans and potential ways to glean savings, Pentagon press secretary George Little told reporters this afternoon.
The Iraq government has transferred its first payment for 18 Lockheed Martin F-16C fighter aircraft, the block 52 variant, initiating a foreign military sale that has a "total value" of "approximately $3 billion," Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a statement this afternoon.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta issued the following statement today on the Senate's confirmation of Ashton Carter to be the next deputy defense secretary.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen today questioned the wisdom of continuing to treat the Army, Navy and Air Force as fiscal equals -- even as he warned against letting spending cuts devolve into a parochial squabble for resources among the armed services.
The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved a fiscal year 2012 defense-spending bill that guts funding for the Army's Ground Combat Vehicle, kills development of a weather satellite and cuts a major missile defense program.
The Pentagon is asking a handful of key lawmakers to quickly approve the start of new multimillion-dollar programs, much to the chagrin of the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
With the end of the fiscal year weeks away, the Defense Department is asking lawmakers to approve a shift of $3 billion for urgently needed vehicles, aircraft and surveillance initiatives.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta plans to emphasize the importance of maintaining a healthy industrial base when he meets with the Aerospace Industries Association at the Pentagon Tuesday morning, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters today.
Turns out former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' next job will be less than three hours away from the Pentagon. Gates has been named the next chancellor of the College of William & Mary, his alma mater.
Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan declined to comment this morning on the substance of the recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, which the panel previewed today in a Washington Post Op-Ed.
Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan told reporters this morning that the Defense Department expects to send Congress a tardy annual report on China's military later this week.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta argued today that a congressional supercommittee charged with proposing major deficit-reduction measures later this year should not recommend any cuts to the Defense Department's long-term budget.
This week's debt-ceiling deal has rendered obsolete long-term budget plans that the armed services submitted just days ago to Pentagon leaders while raising new questions about the magnitude of cuts facing the department in the next decade.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is scheduled Thursday afternoon to hold his first Pentagon press conference since taking office in July, Defense Department spokesman Col. David Lapan told reporters today.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and U.K. Minister of Defense Liam Fox met for an hour Aug. 1 at the Pentagon to review "a range of regional and global issues of national security importance to both nations," according to Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Doug Wilson.
Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA) today announced the creation of a "special bipartisan panel," led by Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX) and Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ), charged with addressing "the ongoing challenge of financial management in the Pentagon."
The House today voted 336-87 to approve the fiscal year 2012 defense appropriations bill.
The Pentagon must quickly complete its strategy for slashing security spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade to inform Washington's fast-paced talks on budget cuts, the military's top officer said today.
The Defense Department is asking Congress to shift $6 billion in fiscal year 2011 to support higher priorities and unfunded requirements, including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program's cost increases and new initiatives for communications, vehicles and aircraft.
Senators are seeking new, legal ways to apply downward pressure on the cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program's current contract, Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) told reporters today.