Defense Secretary Ash Carter will have "something to say" about the fiscal year 2017 defense budget on Feb. 2, according to Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook.
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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 will have "something to say" about the fiscal year 2017 defense budget on Feb. 2, according to Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook.
A think tank report released today found that Pentagon spending on services contracts has largely been insulated from a declining defense budget, despite a significant drawdown in the U.S. military presence overseas and a desire in Congress and the Defense Department to funnel greater resources to other priorities.
A new think tank report details the coming "bow wave" in the defense modernization budget, pointing to the Air Force as the top contributor to the Pentagon's climbing future acquisition bill.
Most events and congressional hearings in and around Washington have been canceled or postponed this week as the nation's capital continues to dig out from under a record-setting blizzard, though the defense industry's top contractors are scheduled to hold quarterly earnings calls.
At a time when lawmakers are bristling over potential cuts to Navy shipbuilding and other potential weapon systems downsizing in the fiscal year 2017 budget, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is characterizing the Pentagon's search for new, game-changing technology as many small bets that may never yield the desired strategic outcome.
House GOP defense hawks are working through Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) and his budget committee counterpart Tom Price (R-GA) to increase fiscal year 2017 defense spending via the overseas contingency operations account should the Obama administration propose amounts they perceive to be too low, according to sources.
The Pentagon has released a new directive to address the impacts of climate change that will affect the Defense Department's acquisition oversight structure.
Highlights from the week ahead include an appearance by Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Paul Selva and a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on a controversial Defense Department task force and its operations in Afghanistan.
The Defense Department is focusing on how to better manage the $145 billion it spent on the acquisition of services in fiscal year 2015, while the Government Accountability Office is in the final stages of crafting a report on the matter, according to a top Pentagon official.
Here are some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Pentagon.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-TX) is concerned that the Obama administration will use base budget defense funds to pay for operational expenses in fiscal year 2017, rather than request more overseas contingency operations spending.
The Pentagon's No. 2 official has commissioned a sweeping review of the organization and responsibilities of the Defense Department, an ambitious, three-month project that aims to identify potential changes to organizational relationships and authorities in a gambit to shape the debate in Congress this year over updating the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols act.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter will likely preview the Pentagon's fiscal year 2017 budget request sometime during the final week of January, according to Capt. Jeff Davis, director of defense press operations.
The week ahead is dominated by President Obama's State of the Union address; Defense Secretary Ash Carter's planned speech on operations to counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant; and the Surface Navy Association's annual symposium.
The White House Office of Management and Budget has scheduled the formal rollout of the fiscal year 2017 federal budget request for Feb. 9.
Some must-reads from this week's edition of Inside the Pentagon.
The Government Accountability Office has been asked by congressional defense committee staffers to "informally" evaluate data-based assertions made by Frank Kendall, the Pentagon's acquisition chief, that the Defense Department's Better Buying Power initiative has controlled weapon system contract costs.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter is expected to preview the Pentagon's fiscal year 2017 budget request "in the coming days," though the target date for submission to Congress remains Feb. 1, according to officials and sources.
The Pentagon has unveiled a new oversight and review structure for the acquisition of services in an effort to better manage the $100-plus billion it spends annually on such contracts.
Katherine Blakeley will work on defense budgeting issues for the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.