Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The FY-18 defense spending bill, just passed by the House and awaiting Senate approval, dominates this Thursday INSIDER Daily Digest.
The FY-18 defense spending bill would fund the Pentagon's Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, otherwise known as Project Maven, to the tune of $131 million after the Defense Department sought just $31 million:
Spending bill hands $100M increase to Pentagon's artificial-intelligence 'pathfinder'
The omnibus appropriations bill agreed to by House negotiators would increase funding for the Pentagon's marquee artificial intelligence program by $100 million in fiscal year 2018.
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Republicans tout defense spending increase ahead of final omnibus vote
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.
Omnibus spending bill designates OPIR as a special interest item
The 2018 omnibus spending bill proposed this week requires the Air Force to brief Congress on the cost and schedule associated with its new Space-Based Infrared System strategy and designates overhead persistent infrared as a special interest item.
Directed-energy funding totals about $285 million in the FY-19 request and nearly $1.3 billion across the next five years:
Air Force boosts directed-energy experiment funds, prepares for first tests
The Air Force is shifting research and development money in its fiscal year 2019 budget request to support "game-changing" directed-energy efforts, newly prioritizing an experimentation campaign set to begin this fall.
The CEOs of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Atomics and Leidos attended a trade tariff signing ceremony today:
Defense CEOs back Trump's new tariffs on China
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.
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