Michigan bids to become America’s arsenal of rapid defense innovation
Michigan is making a pitch to be America’s factory floor for the future of warfare.
Congress
Senate bill seeks to protect shipbuilding jobs from workforce cuts
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation to shield America’s public shipyards from hiring freezes and mass layoffs.
House appropriators want to shave $44M off Air Force’s flagship hypersonic program
Lawmakers said the flight test program had become "increasingly delayed and compressed," leading to larger risk of concurrency.
House appropriators fund Hawaii missile defense radar, but cut dollars for Guam
The House Appropriations Committee is cutting a chunk out of the Missile Defense Agency's funding to set up a more robust missile defense architecture to defend Guam.
House appropriators would protect three of four littoral combat ships
House appropriators ripped a proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships contained in President Joe Biden’s Pentagon budget request for next year as “a misuse of taxpayer funds.”
Can defense squeeze onto Congress’ busy agenda?
On Congress’ agenda when members return from the July 4 recess: late-arriving defense spending and policy bills as well as President Joe Biden’s pick for Navy secretary, among other Pentagon nominees.
Why America could lose its next war
Denying China and Russia a path to victory will require the Pentagon to revisit its planning assumptions and increase forces and capabilities.
Biden defends Afghanistan pullout as Taliban gains ground
President Joe Biden explains the decision to pull out of Afghanistan
Watchdog group finds F-35 sustainment costs could be headed off affordability cliff
By 2036, F-35 sustainment costs could exceed the U.S. military's affordability parameters by $6 billion per year.
On fleet size, Congress should listen to the Navy’s leaders, not its planning documents
“If we’re going to pace the adversary, we need to have a bigger Navy,” Navy Vice Adm. James Kilby told senators.
Pentagon’s top IT official: More coordination needed on weapon systems and critical infrastructure cybersecurity
“What keeps me up at night are cyberthreats of the kind we’re seeing across the country — not only against the government, but against the private sector.”
