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Sen. Tuberville: Biden infrastructure plan is a ‘farce’ WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 25: Sen. Tommy Tuberville is shown on Capitol Hill on March 25, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images) OAN Newsroom Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) said the Biden administration’s infrastructure plan is a farce. Tuberville slammed the massive $2 trillion proposal while speaking on the Senate floor Monday. The Republican senator said calling what the Democrats are pushing an infrastr...

Biden requests $715B for Pentagon, hinting at administration’s future priorities 7 hours ago The first installment of President Joe Biden’s budget plan contained only top-line discretionary spending numbers. (Alex Brandon/AP) WASHINGTON — 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. The request, rolled out Friday, amounts to a slight decrea...

Senators press for more on SolarWinds hack after AP report Associated Press 1 hr ago By ALAN SUDERMAN, Associated Press © Provided by Associated Press Sen. Gary Peters., D-Mich., speaks during a hearing to examine United States Special Operations Command and United States Cyber Command in review of the Defense Authorization Request for fiscal year 2022 and the Future Years Defense Program, on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 25, 2021, in Washington. (Anna Moneymaker/The New Yo...

Boeing Delivers First F-15EX Jet to U.S. Air Force

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The First F-15EX Received U.S. Air Force Camouflage And Markings The First F-15EX Received U.S. Air Force Camouflage And Markings The first F-15EX landing at the end of its first flight after being painted with the USAF camouflage. If you look closely, you can see that the pilot is flying with a folded US flag in the cockpit. (Photo: Alex Farwell/vikingaeroimages) The F-15EX was photographed during its first flight after receiving the classic F-15C/D camouflage and the 40th Flight Test Squadron...

State sets land sale for new National Guard readiness center in Redmond One piece of larger project, years in the making, with years to go REDMOND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- After years of discussion and collaboration between the city of Redmond, Deschutes County and the Oregon Military Department, another state agency will be meeting to approve the sale of 20 state-owned acres for a new National Guard readiness center in Redmond. A proposal to approve the sale of 20 acres in Redmond for $1.66 million to ...

The New F-15EX Flies For The First Time Ahead Of The First Deliveries Later This Year The New F-15EX Flies For The First Time Ahead Of The First Deliveries Later This Year The F-15EX AF 20-0001 photographed immediately after the  landing gear retraction during the takeoff. (Photo: @vikingaeroimages) The new advanced F-15EX Eagles will replace the older F-15Cs that have long surpassed their expected service-life estimates. The first new F-15EX built for the U.S. Air Force took the skies for the...

. (These proposals subsequently failed.) The net difference between those two views is well over $150 billion dollars in a single year. In an ideal world, the defense budget debate would be fact-based and informed. Of course, no one should be under any illusion that final defense budgets spring fully formed from dispassionate strategic analyses. The last word on defense spending always results from the clash of strategic thought and the reigning political environment. In the United States, suc...

Defense analysts say each military service will likely be forced to make some difficult choices that have been put off for years because Pentagon spending is expected to plateau or even be cut in the post-Trump, post-COVID-19 era.