Lawmakers back White House FY26 plans for more troops, 3.8% pay hike
The military's active-duty end strength would grow by about 26,000 troops next year under plans being considered in the House and Senate.
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Proposed Senate defense bill would add $500M in long-term Ukraine aid
The Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative is one of two main ways the Pentagon has provided military support to Ukraine over the last three years.
As Pentagon vacancies peak, time runs out to fill jobs
Of 60 Senate-confirmable positions at the Pentagon, more than one third are unfilled, and time is running out for the Trump administration on the Senate’s abbreviated, election-year calendar.
Lawmaker floats Boeing squeeze play for troubled KC-46
House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee Ranking Member Rob Wittman, R-Va., said the Air Force should pressure Boeing by accepting only the minimum number of tankers.
Air Force leaders don’t want to give up spectrum for 5G
Top U.S. Air Force officials doubled down Tuesday on the message the Pentagon will not vacate airwaves that telecom firms want in their race with China to build the next-generation mobile networks, known as 5G.
A fix for the KC-46 is already a year late
Boeing is projected to begin rolling out a fix in 2023-2024.
Sanders, Warren urge DoD to save union protections
A group of liberal senators, including Sens. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass, want the Trump administration not to strip labor rights from civilian Department of Defense employees.
This week in Congress: Military leaders deploy to Capitol Hill
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of March 2, 2020.
Navy secretary pick Braithwaite gets official nod from Trump
President Donald Trump has officially announced his intent to nominate Kenneth “K.J.” Braithwaite as the Navy's top civilian.
Don’t leave Open Skies Treaty, top Democrats say
If President Donald Trump withdraws the U.S. from the Open Skies Treaty, it would “harm both U.S. and allied security interests,” two top Senate Democrats have told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Democrats press Pompeo over Trump’s ‘failure’ of an Iran policy
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got an earful on the Trump administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran
