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Watchdog report says Maine’s legal defense program for the poor lacks oversight, organization The Legislatures accountability office released the first part of its report on Maines program Monday. Share A state watchdog agency has concluded that Maine’s system for providing legal services to the poor has little organizational structure, lacks oversight and does not have established policies for attorney billing. The Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services has been under scrutiny as law...

USNI News Panel: Future Fleet Numbers Not As Important As Capabilities Like Sealift, Unmanned March 1, 2021 3:03 PM Terrance Wells, from San Diego, ties straps for a containment project on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) on Oct. 26, 2020. US Navy Photo A panel of Navy experts is hopeful that discussions around the future naval fleet will focus on big-picture questions – how will the Navy and the nation pay for modernizing the sealift fleet, do...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 25, 2021 at 1:00 PM F-35A Lightning II UPDATED To Include Comments From CSAF Gen. CQ Brown; Hudson Institute’s Bryan Clark WASHINGTON: The Air Force, Navy and Marines tactical aircraft fleets are all being reconsidered as part of a Joint Staff review of fighter needs for 2023 and beyond, Air Force officials tell Breaking D — raising fundamental questions about the Pentagon’s purchases of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Air Force’s...

By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on February 23, 2021 at 4:19 PM F-35 training simulator WASHINGTON: “The principal challenge DoD faces is not a lack of innovation,” Christine Fox told Congress Tuesday. “The tougher task is how to adopt all this new innovation more rapidly into DoD programs….We have lots of prototypes but what we need is sustainable programs.” Fox, the former head of the Pentagon’s powerful Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE) unit, was testifying to the first...

As the Defense Department looks to buy more services, its going to need to come up with action plans to better account for spending in future years, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.

Screengrab from "Air Force 2030 -- Call to Action" video 24 Feb 2021 The U.S. Air Force isnt ruling out bringing a new fighter jet into its inventory as it looks to replace older, fourth-generation F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, according to the services top general. As the service tries to determine the right mix of aircraft for its future inventory, its considering the idea of a new fighter that falls somewhere between fourth- and fifth-generation airframes -- one that could easily be upgrade...

As the Defense Department looks to buy more services, its going to need to come up with action plans to better account for spending in future years, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.

We are not meeting the Constitution’s demand that everyone is equal before the law.

Air Force chief of staff suggests finding a replacement for F-16 fighter By (0) U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown suggested this week that a replacement for the F-16 fighter planes is under consideration. Photo by Capt. Kip Sumner/U.S. Air Force  Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A study is underway to replace the oldest F-16 fighter planes, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown said this week. A new aircraft would have four and one-half or fifth-generation capabilities, approaching tho...

By   Theresa Hitchens on February 17, 2021 at 6:12 PM F-16 WASHINGTON: Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown is launching a study, in tandem with DoD’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE), on the service’s future mix of tactical aircraft. “This will help inform the decisions that I think I need to make internal to the Air Force, and what I would recommend that force mix might be,” Brown told the Defense Writers Group late this afternoon. “Now, I will also tell you I don�...