DOD feeling the bite as government shutdown becomes second longest in U.S. history

By Tony Bertuca / October 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
(Editor’s note: The House Armed Services Committee has acknowledged it previously misstated a delay to the Joint Advanced Tactical Missile program. The record has been corrected.) The Defense Department, detailing for Congress the impacts of the ongoing government shutdown, says it has canceled “significant elements” of a key military exercise for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command focused on validating land-based strike capabilities via an experimental radar being integrated with the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). The canceled exercise with the...

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