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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 the Pentagon since 1996, with stints at the National Security Council and as director of Internation...

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 Armed Services Committee said Tuesday. “How do we start spending the money better,” Rep. Adam Smith ...

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, urging its release by May 10 to avoid a continuing resolution. “I am deeply concerned about the Bi...

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 part of the White House’s 2022 budget request as the administration looks to wind down the presence o...