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US Space Force budget request dips as China threat increases
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said he's worried funding constraints are keeping the service from transitioning quickly to more resilient space systems.
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US Army faces flat FY25 budget as personnel costs rise
As global operations heat up and personnel costs rise, the U.S. Army is grappling to modernize and take care of its people within a flat FY25 budget.
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US Army scraps Extended Range Cannon Artillery prototype effort
The Army is changing directions in its effort to field a long-range cannon, scrapping its 58-caliber prototype in favor of considering available systems.
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Missile Defense Agency won’t brief public on budget request
The Missile Defense Agency director says he is working on a way to share the organization's budget details in lieu of its usual Pentagon rollout.
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A nearly $1 trillion defense budget faces headwinds at home and abroad
There are bipartisan calls to hit the breaks as defense spending nears $1 trillion. Others say that amount is not enough to fund U.S. strategy worldwide.
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Opinion
Three directions the US defense budget could go
Battles over border security, as well as aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, make the outcome for the FY25 defense budget difficult to predict.
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To keep pace, the Pentagon needs a new way to plan its budget
The PBBE process is no longer able to keep up with the pace of innovation and the complexity of growing national defense threats.
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Congress passes fourth stopgap funding bill as 1% sequester looms
Lawmakers kicked FY24 defense funding further down the road, raising fears at the Pentagon that congressional inaction may soon result in a 1% sequester.
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Continuing resolution could degrade training for future fights
The U.S. military would have to make sacrifices to exercises around the globe if Congress fails to pass an FY24 budget, officials warn.
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How can the Pentagon arm Ukraine amid stalled aid package?
The department is weighing options to keep arms flowing to ammunition-starved Ukraine, but there's no replacement for the aid package stalled in Congress.
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Continuing resolution would slow military modernization, services warn
The Navy, for example, would have $26 billion in the wrong places, and would need Congress to approve $13 billion in formal reprogrammings.
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Opinion
How to hold Ukraine over until Congress passes more aid funding
Washington still retains the authority to give Kyiv more than $4 billion worth of materiel from U.S. stocks.
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Pentagon AI office must ‘cannibalize’ to keep operating, Martell says
The U.S. Department of Defense sought $1.8 billion for artificial intelligence and machine learning in fiscal 2024.
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The Pentagon wants industry to transform again to meet demand. Can it?
In 30 years, the Pentagon went from a defense industry it considered too large to sustain, to one now too small to surge.
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Air Force leaders sound alarm over looming yearlong funding delay
The Pentagon is operating under its third continuing resolution of fiscal 2024 as Congress continues to draft defense spending legislation.
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US Army hunts for explosives to meet increased munitions output goals
The U.S. is increasing domestic explosives production and buying from abroad to support Ukraine and replenish stockpiles of 155mm artillery shells.
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Opinion
The US is failing to quickly field hypersonic missile defense
If Washington does not act quickly to expedite the Pentagon’s fielding of hypersonic missile defense capabilities, deterrence may fail in the Pacific.
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