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.
Lawmakers crunching the numbers on potential surface Navy additions to FY22 spending plan
Lawmakers are unhappy the Navy both requested to decommission seven cruisers and cut its planned two-destroyer buy down to one in its fiscal 2022 spending request.
Troops who refused anthrax vaccine paid a high price
An unknown fraction of service members who were punished for refusing the anthrax vaccine in the late 1990s and early 2000s have sought to have their records corrected, but only a few have had success.
House repeals 2002 war authorization, with Senate action coming next
The House voted Thursday to repeal the 2002 authorization of military force against Iraq, a step that supporters say is necessary to constrain presidential war powers even though it is unlikely to affect U.S. military operations around the world.
Another Boeing-Airbus tanker war is coming soon
The Air Force wants to buy as many as 160 KC-Y tankers after it's finished with KC-46 production. Both Airbus and Boeing are ready to compete.
Lawmakers push to boost Missile Defense Agency budget second year in a row
Another push in Congress to inject funding into the Missile Defense Agency's budget is afoot.
Lawmakers are worried about the US Navy’s spending plan and a near-term China threat
The Navy's FY22 spending plans met resistance from lawmakers who worry that it doesn't preserve enough force structure for a near-term fight with China and that it doesn't invest enough in growing the fleet.
Classified Navy JADC2 budget plan has a few spending hints
Experts pointed out signs of the service's joint war-fighting spending priorities and weighed in on possible reasons for the secrecy.
Proposed modernization increases show Army sees joint operations as ‘top priority’
The Army budget slashed billions in spending but left modernization priorities fully funded. That's an important investment for the service's contribution to JADC2.
Congress dealt ABMS a blow, but experts see progress that could help at budget time
In Part 2 of C4ISRNET's deep dive into how the Pentagon is funding JADC2, we look at the Advanced Battle Management System.
