The Army will draw on the Pentagon's Base Realignment and Closure recommendations to create "centers of excellence" that consolidate efforts and coordinate doctrine and training, the service said today.
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The Army will draw on the Pentagon's Base Realignment and Closure recommendations to create "centers of excellence" that consolidate efforts and coordinate doctrine and training, the service said today.
The House Armed Services tactical air and land subcommittee voted today to cut the president's proposed budget for the Future Combat System by $400 million in its mark-up of the defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2006.
The Pentagon comptroller yesterday sent a letter to the leaders of the four congressional defense committees asking for the authority to transfer $1.1 billion to prevent the Army from running out of money as it awaits the passage of an emergency supplemental spending bill.
The Pentagon is still considering whether to ask Congress for the authority to transfer $750 million within the Army's budget to prevent the service from running out of money for civilian pay as it awaits the passage of an emergency supplemental spending bill, according to a senior Army budget official.
The Army has put Boeing on notice that within 30 days, the government could terminate for default the company's contract for developing future software-defined radios, according to sources and documents.
The Army and the Office of the Secretary of Defense plan to ask Congress this week to transfer $750 million to prevent the service from running out of money to pay civilian workers as it awaits a desperately needed supplemental bill, according to a senior budget official.
The Army is restructuring the Future Combat System contract by taking a more traditional acquisition approach, the service announced today.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) today questioned Army leaders about a special contracting mechanism for the Future Combat System that is exempt from certain government regulations.
The Army has identified $4.8 billion in requirements that went unfunded in the president's fiscal year 2006 budget request, according to a letter sent last week to Congress.
The Army is in line to receive just over half of the $81.9 billion supplemental budget request for fiscal year 2005, at $41.2 billion, according to the service.
Technical challenges have led the Army to issue a partial stop-work order and halt initial production of the military's future software-programmable radios for ground and aerial vehicles, the service said.
The Senate Armed Services Committee should hold hearings on the Army's Future Combat System, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said today.
Francis Harvey, the new Army secretary, is calling for a "business transformation" to complement the service's transformation efforts and help support soldiers, according to a widely distributed Jan. 22 message.
The Pentagon's acquisition chief last week authorized the Army to begin limited low-rate initial production of the Stryker Mobile Gun System.
The Pentagon's acting acquisition chief, Michael Wynne, last week gave the Army the authority to award two contracts to continue the development of the service's future tactical intranet.
The Army will not equip its first brigade-like unit with the Future Combat System until two years later than planned, senior Army officials said today during a House Armed Services Committee hearing.
The Army four-star who said up-armored humvees in theater are not "providing the solution the Army hoped to achieve" now says that one statement, contained in an internal memo leaked to reporters, is being "misconstrued."
After a 12-day "spike" in violence in Iraq that has left 78 soldiers dead and 561 wounded, the Office of the Secretary of Defense is expected to announce within the next couple of days a plan to extend troop deployments, a senior Army official told reporters this morning.
Police have arrested a man near the Pentagon who claimed to have a bomb in his car, Pentagon spokesman Glenn Flood told InsideDefense.com this afternoon.
The military's Base Closure and Realignment effort in 2005 could save up to $5 billion in 2011 and another $8 billion each year thereafter, according to a report released by the Pentagon today.