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Budget
August 2023
Congress Seeks Clarity on JADC2 Spending
The Defense Department’s joint all-domain command and control initiative, or JADC2, is eyeing an increase in funding in the 2024 budget, and both the House and Senate are largely on board, but the latter has raised concerns about the difficulty of tracking the range of programs, projects and spending on the concept. -
Defense Department
July 2023
2024 Defense Bills Emphasize Innovation, But Passage in Question
In theory, everyone knows what the 2024 defense budget will be. The debt ceiling deal signed into law in May set a cap on total defense spending of $886 billion. -
Science and Engineering Technology
June 2023
Taking Measure of Science and Technology Funding
While Defense Department budgets have ebbed and flowed this century, there has been relative consistency in one category: science-and-technology funding. -
Budget
May 2023
Debt Ceiling Fight Puts Defense Budget in Limbo
This time of year, Congress is usually busy marking up the annual National Defense Authorization Act and mapping out the defense budget for the next fiscal year. However, just as the House Armed Services Committee was to begin work on the 2024 NDAA, Chairman Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., pumped the brakes. -
Budget
May 2023
Jury Still Out on Multiyear Procurement for Munitions
During a media roundtable in February, Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth touted a provision of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act: multiyear procurement for munitions. -
Budget
March 2023
The Challenge of Predicting Future Defense Spending
Rites of spring in Washington: cherry blossoms explode along the Tidal Basin, and a budget request emerges from the White House, thus beginning another congressional cycle of trying to fund the government. -
Budget
January 2023
After Record Budget, Pentagon Could See Belt Tightening
Many current and former members of Congress, analysts and industry leaders have said the best-case scenario for 2024 is a year-long continuing resolution. -
Budget
December 2022
Congress Passes Record Defense Bill, Late Again
Late on Dec. 15, Congress passed the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act. The annual defense bill came some 75 days after the start of the fiscal year. That’s worse than usual. -
Acquisition
November 2022
LaPlante: Time to Prioritize Defense Production
Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment William LaPlante seemed in a feisty mood when discussing acquisition reform and the big lesson of Ukraine: production matters. -
Budget
October 2022
Congress Leaves Defense Department Hanging
The Defense Department started fiscal year 2023 with the same funding as 2022, and no adjustment for the roughly 9 percent inflation since the beginning of fiscal year 2022.
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