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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. -
Budget
September 2022
Congress Continues to Kick Appropriations Can
The federal government will ring in the fiscal new year under a continuing resolution — the device Congress uses to paper over its persistent failure to appropriate. -
Budget
August 2022
America Pushes Its CHIPS All In, Will it Pay Off?
Growing demand for high-tech devices in the consumer and defense sectors was straining the global chip supply chain before the pandemic, and companies around the world have been struggling to find the workforce needed to feed the world’s chip habit. -
Budget
July 2022
Congress Increases Innovation Funding, Again
The cat and mouse game between the White House and Congress over innovation funding in the annual defense budget continues. -
Budget
July 2022
Congress Alarmed over Innovation Funding
As National Defense reported in this column last month, the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2023 budget request includes significant increases in science-and-technology funding over the previous year’s request. But members indicated in a May 12 hearing that they are not satisfied with the proposed budget, which is less than what Congress ultimately authorized for 2022 spending. -
Research and Development
May 2022
2023 Science, Technology Budget a Mixed Bag
The fiscal year 2023 Defense Department budget proposal is a big win for research, development, test and evaluation — particularly the science and technology portion of the funding — according to senior officials. However, a closer analysis of the request and the impact of inflation indicates the proposal is less than the fiscal year 2022 enacted budget.
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