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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.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter criticized congressional appropriators during a Sept. 22 visit to Capitol Hill, citing proposed cuts to an array of weapon system improvement programs including electronic warfare, undersea drones and missile modernization that fall under the Pentagon's push for "Third Offset" technologies.
The Senate Appropriations Committee has released a proposal for a short-term, stopgap spending measure, or continuing resolution, to keep the federal government operating through Dec. 9.
The State Department has approved a proposed $2 billion foreign military sale to Japan of four Boeing KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft, according to a Defense Security Cooperation Agency notice.
Pentagon Comptroller Mike McCord provided the Congressional Research Service with a list of weapons programs slated to be impacted in the likely event that Congress passes a stopgap spending measure in lieu of a fiscal year 2017 defense appropriations bill, according to a recent CRS report.
The Pentagon is preparing for debate among the military services over electronic warfare investments, which in the past have been too disparate to accurately assess, but are now more clear thanks to the work of a special committee prepared to make resource recommendations.
Lawmakers have put discussions on the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill on hold until after the November elections, according to multiple Capitol Hill sources who spoke to Inside Defense.
Today is the start of the Air Force Association's annual conference at National Harbor, MD, while Defense Secretary Ash Carter is scheduled to testify on Capitol Hill later in the week.
Defense contractors have until Sept. 30 to resubmit proposals for the Defense Information Systems Agency's controversial ENCORE III information technology services contract that could be worth up to $17.5 billion.
After much deliberation, both public and private, the Pentagon, which has shifted emphasis away from the electromagnetic rail gun as a next-generation missile defense platform, sees a new hypervelocity powder gun technology as the key to demonstrating to potential adversaries like China and Russia that U.S. military units on land and sea can neutralize large missile salvos in future conflicts.
OSLO, NORWAY -- Officially, the Pentagon has no position on whether the Norwegian military should replace its aging fleet of P-3 Orions made by Lockheed Martin with Boeing's P-8 Poseidon surveillance aircraft.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) spoke this morning of the collective responsibility Congress bore for being unable to compromise on the future of government spending, forcing lawmakers to continue to stick to the spending caps set by the 2011 Budget Control Act.
The Pentagon, responding to flaws highlighted in a recent Government Accountability Office report, has established a working group to provide Congress better budget data in fiscal year 2018 concerning military fuel consumption.
The United States and Israel have signed a 10-year memorandum of understanding that will grant the Israelis $38 billion in military aid between fiscal years 2019-2028, an increase over the current MOU, which covers $30 billion in aid, according to a White House statement.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter was in Austin, TX, Wednesday to reveal the city would be the site of his third Defense Innovation Unit Experimental outpost, where he announced the organization had $65 million in prototyping projects "in the pipeline."
The actions of Edward Snowden, the former Booz Allen Hamilton contractor who is seeking a presidential pardon after famously leaking information about the U.S. government's highly classified surveillance program, did “tremendous harm” to national security and broke a “special trust,” according to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter has canceled a planned Thursday speech at the National Press Club that would have targeted Congress and an array of reforms proposed in the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill.
The largest defense contractors, known as the "Big 5," have seen an unprecedented loss of market share in research and development contracts since 2009 as the Pentagon has significantly cut its pipeline of new weapons programs amid budgetary stress, according to a new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
OSLO, NORWAY -- The United States is prepared to answer North Korea's latest nuclear test with all aspects of its deterrence capabilities, including the U.S. "nuclear umbrella," according to Defense Secretary Ash Carter.
BODO, NORWAY -- Defense Secretary Ash Carter has been briefed on "seismic activity" in North Korea that North Korean state media said was a nuclear test, according to the Pentagon. (UPDATED)
Defense Secretary Ash Carter met in London today with Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik to discuss the campaign to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, according to Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook.