Policy

Biden’s $842B Pentagon Budget Proposal Would Boost New Weapons

The spending plan also proposes industrial-base investments.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Policy

Air Force Wants Faster A-10 Retirements

21 Warthogs are going away this year, and service leaders hope Congress will allow more.

  • Audrey Decker and Marcus Weisgerber
Policy

Air Force Wants More Planes Faster—Plus a Thousand Drone Wingmen

The service secretary previewed the 2024 budget request.

  • Audrey Decker
Policy

Panel Seeks Ways to Accelerate Pentagon Budgeting—and Keep Up with China

Recommendations are expected soon on adapting a decades-old way of doing things for the modern era.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Threats

Today's D Brief: 180K Russian casualties in Ukraine, Norway DM says; Amphib study under wraps; Berlin steps aside on Leopard 2 request; Paris mulls tanks for Ukraine; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
Policy

Defense Industry Decries Possible GOP-led Spending Cuts

AIA letter begs lawmakers to avoid another sequestration deal.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Business

Slow deliveries to Ukraine; Debt-ceiling showdown; New F-35 radar; and more.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Policy

Lawmakers Slam Colleagues’ Talk of 2024 Defense Cuts

Still, Rep. Jordan insists “everything” is on the table.

  • Caitlin M. Kenney
Business

Defense Business Brief: Budget deal done; Lockheed misses F-35 goal; Egypt orders Chinooks; and more.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Defense Systems

More Money For Info Ops, Army Recruiting, Cyber In Omnibus

Bill would also boost defense research funding once again.

  • Lauren C. Williams
Policy

Senate Reaches Breakthrough and Passes $1.7T Omnibus Funding Bill

Measure now heads to the House ahead of Friday's shutdown deadline.

  • Eric Katz
Policy

Defense Spending to Soar to $858B in $1.7T Omnibus Bill

10% bump over 2022 mark is far more than then 4% proposed by Biden.

  • Eric Katz
Policy

Congress Prepares One-Week CR as Lawmakers Work Toward Full-Year Funding Deal

The continuing resolution would push off a government shutdown from Friday night to Dec. 23.

  • Eric Katz
Ideas

Stop Building a Military to Attack China

Concentrate instead on deterring Beijing, and keeping a Chinese invasion force from going anywhere.

  • Dan Grazier
Science & Tech

Cyber, Speed, and UFOs: A Tour of Tech Provisions in the 2023 NDAA

The defense policy bill also prods the intelligence community to follow other defense agencies’ emerging-tech efforts.

  • Lauren C. Williams
Threats

Today's D Brief: How lawmakers plan to spend $860B on defense; 25 far-right extremists arrested in German coup plot; More US troops to Australia; AQ in Afghanistan; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Jennifer Hlad
Policy

Austin Urges Congress to Pass a Budget, Citing China Threat

But the secretary left inflation, supply chain, and worker woes out of his speech to the Reagan National Defense Forum.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Policy

Why Defense Budgets Will Stay High After the Ukraine War

The war is exposing how European nations were underinvesting in defense, and the critical role that renewable energy will play in transatlantic security.

  • Patrick Tucker
Ideas

Fully Fund America’s International Affairs Budget

Few investments reap larger rewards than the less-than-1% we spend on diplomacy and development.

  • Patrick Murphy and Blair Milo
Policy

Defense Firms Sound Inflation Alarm as Congress Mulls 2023 Budget

One trade association says Pentagon would lose $110 billion in buying power.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
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