The House Armed Services Committee will begin consideration of the fiscal year 2019 defense authorization bill April 26, with a full committee mark-up scheduled for May 9, according to a schedule released today.
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Tony Bertuca is chief editor of Inside the Pentagon, the flagship publication of InsideDefense, where he focuses on defense budget and acquisition policy. He previously worked for the Sun-Times News Group in his hometown of Chicago, IL, and at the New Hampshire Union Leader in Manchester, NH. Tony has also served as managing editor of Inside the Army. He has a master's degree in journalism from Boston University.
The House Armed Services Committee will begin consideration of the fiscal year 2019 defense authorization bill April 26, with a full committee mark-up scheduled for May 9, according to a schedule released today.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has spoken with President Trump about the Pentagon potentially paying the $25 billion bill for a wall on the southern border with Mexico, the Defense Department's chief spokeswoman confirmed today.
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The Pentagon should "immediately" adopt private-sector practices for agile software development and jettison its traditional methods in favor of a more iterative approach, according to an influential advisory board.
When President Trump was elected in late 2016, defense advocates readied for increased spending, confident his arrival would mean far larger budgets. But for nearly the past 18 months, that prediction has faced doubts and political gridlock, as Congress continued to rely on stopgap spending measures.
President Trump should support the sale of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to Taiwan to help protect it from Chinese military "aggression," according to a recent letter from Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and James Inhofe (R-OK).
In response to a March 4 chemical attack in the United Kingdom, President Trump has ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian officials believed to be conducting "malicious activities" in the United States and is shuttering the Russian consulate in Seattle, according to several White House officials.
President Trump, despite an earlier threat to veto the legislation, signed a $1.3 trillion fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending bill into law today, announcing he was only doing so because it contains a significant increase in defense funding.
President Trump is "considering" a veto of the $1.3 trillion fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending bill that just passed Congress, despite assurances from GOP leadership that he fully supports the legislation.
The Senate voted 65-32 to pass a fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending bill, averting a government shutdown.
The State Department has approved $1 billion in possible foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia, according to a Defense Security Cooperation Agency announcement.
Leaders from some of the nation's top defense companies flanked President Trump today as he signed off on new tariffs aimed at punishing China for years of "unfair" trade practices and intellectual property theft.
The House voted 256-167 today to pass a $1.3 trillion fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending bill that funds defense at $700 billion.
The most important piece of the massive, $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill is the $700 billion defense budget contained within it, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) said today ahead of a final vote.
Some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Pentagon.
Congress has agreed to a final version of a $1.3 trillion fiscal year 2018 omnibus spending bill that would increase defense funding by $80 billion above statutory spending caps.
The House’s fiscal year 2018 omnibus appropriations bill will propose new flexibility for the Defense Department in how it spends operations and maintenance funds, according to a congressional staffer close to the matter.
The Pentagon is embarking on an era of new investments in key developmental technologies, including directed energy, to ensure continued military superiority over China and Russia, according to Mike Griffin, the under secretary of defense for research and development.
Congress is set to boost the Defense Department's budget by $165 billion over the next two fiscal years, but the military has to show it is wisely spending taxpayer dollars when it acquires new weapon systems, according to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX).