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By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on April 12, 2021 at 5:35 PM Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel (left) swears in Christine Wormuth for her previous high-profile Pentagon job in 2014. UPDATED with Hill, AUSA endorsements WASHINGTON: The Biden Administration has tapped a veteran bureaucratic infighter to be the first female Secretary of the Army. Christine Wormuth not only headed Biden’s own defense transition team, taking over from DepSecDef nominee Kathleen Hicks. She’s been in and out of ...

USNI News HASC Chair Smith: Pentagon Needs Realistic Budget Priorities April 13, 2021 5:53 PM Roger Zakheim, left, Washington director of the Ronald Reagan Institute, speaks with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., on April 13, 2021. Reagan Institute Photo The central question facing Pentagon acquisition isn’t the size of the budget top line or the number of ships in the Navy, but how to get the maximum capability for the defense dollar, the chairman of the House Arme...

House Armed Services chair ‘deeply concerned’ by White House budget delays 2 hours ago Roger Zakheim, left, Washington director of the Ronald Reagan Institute, speaks with House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, D-Wash., during an event in Washington on April 13, 2021. (Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Institute) WASHINGTON ― The Democratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee blasted the White House on Tuesday for “dragging their feet” on the federal budget, u...

By   Paul McLeary on April 09, 2021 at 11:48 AM President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at the Pentagon, with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley WASHINGTON: In a return to budgetary order after 20 years of paying for wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria outside of the defense budget, the Biden administration is moving the Overseas Contingency Operations funding back into the base budget for 2022. The move comes as par...

By   Theresa Hitchens on April 08, 2021 at 12:45 PM The Army delivers a “training canister,” simulating a hypersonic missile round, to its first hypersonic battery. WASHINGTON: The Army and Air Force have been told to stop talking in public about their feud over long-range strike for All Domain Operations — signaling that the decision about who does the mission now is in the hands of higher powers. It may be resolved by a review by the powerful CAPE in time for the 2023 budget chop, ex...

The US, once the worlds undisputed military superpower, has been struggling for years to efficiently update its arsenal and field new technology in cutting-edge areas such as hypersonics and artificial intelligence, at a time when some senior officials warn that China could be within five years of surpassing the US military. Experts point to myriad problems with the US system, including a slow, calcified budgeting process, unwieldy congressional requirements and the Pentagons inability to eff...

Good morning, it’s Friday, March 5, 2021, the day of the week when I reprise a quotation meant to be inspiring. Today, I have two -- both concerning pioneer Geraldyn “Jerrie” Cobb, who was born this day in 1931. The first line comes from Cobb’s own 1962 congressional testimony in which she made the case for including women astronauts in this country’s space program. The second comes from a later NASA astronaut who paid homage to Cobb and her sisters of the sky. First, I’d point you ...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on March 03, 2021 at 1:24 PM A Special Forces soldier relays information to his chain of command via radio during an operation in Helmand province, Afghanistan. WASHINGTON: The bipartisan response to Tuesday’s testimony on Afghanistan and Taiwan shows the Senate Armed Services Committee aims to support both allies, despite calls from both the further reaches of the left and right for the US to focus on its domestic troubles. The US needs “capable joint forces...

The full budget, set to be released on May 3, should spark heated debate in Congress between an emboldened progressive wing of the Democratic party looking to cut defense budgets, and Republicans and conservative Democrats who say spending must increase to stay ahead of the Chinese military buildup. By   Paul McLeary on February 23, 2021 at 11:07 AM