The Marine Corps intends to conduct two exercises later this year as part of its Sea Dragon 2025 experimentation, according to a top general in charge of the effort.
The Army is reviewing how it uses other transaction agreements to accelerate the acquisition process, while lawmakers worried about transparency attempt to tighten oversight of the process.
Air National Guard pilots need three more Sikorsky HH-60G search-and-rescue helicopters to meet their combat and homeland-security mission requirements, the Air Force said in a June report to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The Pentagon is seeking congressional permission to shift $62.7 million into the lead ship of the Ford-class aircraft carrier program, a move that would require lawmakers to once again increase the statutory cost cap for the Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and nudge the tab for the next-generation warship over the $13 billion threshold.
The Air Force needs to reorganize its Lockheed Martin F-22 enterprise and increase pilot training to properly address high-end threats, the Government Accountability Office says in a report published Thursday.
Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT) is trying "to create legal space" in the upcoming defense policy bill to allow the Navy to pursue up to two additional Virginia-class submarines in upcoming contract negotiations.
The Army is reviewing how it uses other transaction agreements to accelerate the acquisition process, while lawmakers worried about transparency attempt to tighten oversight of the process.
Marine Corps Maj. Gen. John Jansen said today he's set to soon debrief Gen. Joe Dunford, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Pat Shanahan, the deputy defense secretary, about a June industrial base examination held at the Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy.
The White House objects to provisions in the Senate defense appropriations bill that it says would provide for the procurement of an additional Littoral Combat Ship, along with a measure that limits the Pentagon's requested increase in military end strength, according to a letter from Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.
Defense Department Chief Management Officer Jay Gibson said the Pentagon is on track to exceed a savings of $4 billion in fiscal year 2018 that can be redirected to other military priorities thanks to an efficiency strategy that began in earnest shortly after he was confirmed by the Senate in February.
Defense Department officials are asking Congress to let the Air Force shift more than $536 million of its base-budget funds to higher priorities in fiscal year 2018, largely for research and development efforts, according to an omnibus reprogramming request signed by the Pentagon comptroller July 11.
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