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President Joe Biden speaks at the Pentagon, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021, in Washington.

Biden requests $715B for Pentagon, hinting at administration’s future priorities

U.S. President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2022 budget request asks for $753 billion in national security funding, an increase of 1.6 percent that includes $715 billion for the Defense Department.

Biden’s defense budget will meet ‘traffic jam’ in Congress

President Joe Biden will launch the annual budget and appropriations process Friday when he sends Congress his discretionary spending top line requests for fiscal 2022 ― but Pentagon spending, policy and nominations will be jostling for attention in a busy Congress.

House to block KC-135 retirements for three years, but some B-1 bombers could head for the boneyard

The House Armed Services Commitee is wary of retiring tankers as problems with the KC-46 persist.

Cost of upgrading Arleigh Burke destroyers may not be worth it, says US Navy

The U.S. Navy says upgrading the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers may not be worth the money, but the move has support in Congress.

Here’s how much the US Navy saves by cutting the first 4 LCS more than a decade early

Other priorities crowded out the first four littoral combat ships. Here's how much the Navy saved.

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What we know before the FY2021 defense budget is released | Defense News Weekly Extra

Aaron Mehta and Jeff Martin breakdown what we know about the FY2021 defense budget before it comes out.

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McCarthy: Without budget growth, Army heads toward ‘collision course’

The Army may have to reconsider its end-strength and global presence in addition to cuts to current fleet procurement accounts if it doesn't get a bigger budget in the next few years, the service's secretary said.

The White House gave this nuclear agency a giant funding increase. Can it spend it all?

Over the next five years, the NNSA and the DoD project to spend $163 billion on modernization and upkeep of America's nuclear forces.

A fix for the KC-46 is already a year late

Boeing is projected to begin rolling out a fix in 2023-2024.

By Valerie Insinna and Joe Gould

US Army wants $364 million for Defender Pacific in FY21

Defender Pacific will expand in FY21 and the Army is asking for over $350 million to conduct the exercise as it seeks to strengthen ties and capability in the region.

Trump called for a 350-ship fleet, but his budget falls short of even Obama-era goals

President Trump's ambitions of a much larger fleet aren't reflected in his budget proposals, according to five years of budget documents.

By David B. Larter

Insufficient missile defense funding would leave Americans vulnerable

The Missile Defense Agency has provided a road map for lawmakers to ensure that the U.S. homeland and America’s forward-deployed troops have sufficient missile defense protection.

By Bradley Bowman

Inside America’s newly revealed nuclear ballistic missile warhead of the future

The W93 would be the first new nuclear warhead design for America's military since the 1980s.

Convincing Congress: Secretive programs could prove harmful to Air Force funding plans

Lifting the veil of secrecy on some programs in the Air Force's FY21 budget request could be the key to getting lawmakers on board with controversial retirements of legacy aircraft.

By Valerie Insinna

Here is the first thing the Air Force would fund if it had more money in FY21

Congress is going to have to step in if it wants the Air Force to make a Skyborg prototype this year.

By Valerie Insinna

US Army’s $7 billion wish list would boost multidomain units and wartime funding

The Army's FY21 wish list would inject funding into multidomain units, wartime funding, modernization efforts, personnel needs and infrastructure improvements.

Here’s $5.4 billion of stuff the US Navy says it wants but didn’t fit in its FY21 budget request

Here's the Navy's laundry list of stuff it wants in 2021 but says it couldn't fit into its FY21 ask.

By David B. Larter

The government must be honest when funding the Air Force and Space Force

A retired Air Force colonel warns that the new Space Force should not be built on the cheap, and that the U.S. must not continue to mortgage the future of the Air Force to pay for unrelated programs.

By Col. Keith Zuegel (ret.)

Poland’s Aegis Ashore delayed to 2022 with new way forward coming soon

Poland's Aegis Ashore site continues to have problems and additional delays, but the Missile Defense Agency director said a plan to move forward is coming very soon.

In FY21 budget, US Army restores $200 million cut from night court

The Army is restoring some funding to programs that experienced cuts as the result of the service's FY20 night court.

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