The Defense Department's plans to lock in multiyear procurement contracts for the Army's CH-47H helicopter, the Navy's DDG-51 destroyer and the Marine Corps' V-22 Osprey aircraft are up in the air as Congress mulls legislation to fund the government through March.
Defense Budget Alert
September 05, 2012 |
Daily News
The next few months will be "very challenging" for the Defense Department as it works to develop its fiscal year 2014 long-term investment blueprint amid uncertainty about its FY-13 budget submission to Congress, Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall said today.
September 04, 2012 |
Daily News
The deputy defense secretary has reestablished the Strategic Choices Group to help guide key decisions about the military's fiscal year 2014 spending plan, forming -- for the second year in a row -- a high-level body to debate issues affecting weapons programs, force structure and policy initiatives needed to implement the Obama administration's Strategic Defense Guidance.
August 24, 2012 |
Inside the Army
Army leaders have sprinkled into their new five-year spending plan a raft of initiatives aimed at establishing a stronger ground service footing in the Asia-Pacific region, according to officials familiar with the proposal.
August 24, 2012 |
Daily News
As the threat of sequestration cuts looms, the Pentagon should begin planning for a reprogramming effort to preserve its high-priority items, defense budget analyst Todd Harrison said today.
August 15, 2012 |
Inside the Pentagon
The Senate Appropriations Committee has plussed up the Pentagon's Defense Production Act Purchases request by $100 million, creating a conference issue with the House.
August 15, 2012 |
Inside the Pentagon
House and Senate appropriators are $19 million apart on their overall plans for the Defense Department's multibillion-dollar science and technology budget request for fiscal year 2013.
August 15, 2012 |
Inside the Pentagon
Senate appropriators have recommended cutting the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's fiscal year 2013 budget request by $25 million, setting up a conference issue with House appropriators who want to add $10 million to DARPA's $2.8 billion request.
August 15, 2012 |
Inside the Pentagon
U.S. Transportation Command is grappling with industrial base concerns in light of pending budget cuts and the planned drawdown of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, according to officials and a summary of talks between TRANSCOM and commercial-sector representatives.
August 15, 2012 |
Inside the Pentagon
Senate appropriators have provided almost three times the amount the Pentagon requested for its Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund, creating a conference issue with the House.
August 10, 2012 |
Inside the Army
Lawmakers entered their summer recess earlier this month without finishing up work on the Defense Department's $8 billion fiscal year 2012 omnibus reprogramming request, which includes proposed budget shifts affecting a variety of Army programs.
August 09, 2012 |
Inside the Pentagon
Funding for Defense Department testing will be a bone of contention during conference discussions between House and Senate appropriators as the Senate Appropriations Committee has added nearly $40 million more than the House to the department's budget request.
August 09, 2012 |
Inside the Pentagon
Pentagon
Comptroller Robert Hale is disputing Senate appropriators' charges that his
office has failed to properly oversee the Defense Department's massive budget.
August 09, 2012 |
Inside the Pentagon
Major defense
contractors are assessing whether they have to file sequestration-related
layoff notices to employees possibly facing termination in light of guidance
from the Labor Department saying such notices are not necessary.
August 08, 2012 |
Daily News
As the Defense Department stares down the twin challenges posed by a continuing resolution and sequestration, DOD is working to reduce $328 billion in unobligated balances by putting money under contract before it expires or becomes subject to cuts.
August 03, 2012 |
Inside the Army
The Army's
use of "directed requirements" to justify programs in the fiscal year 2013
defense budget is causing headaches for members of the Senate Appropriations
Committee who last week argued that the maneuvers do nothing to fix the
service's acquisition problems, according to a panel report.
August 02, 2012 |
Daily News
The Senate Appropriations Committee is accusing the Defense Department of failing to correct "years of poor fiscal discipline," arguing DOD's plans to reduce force structure and take risk in meeting military commitments worldwide stem from a lack of oversight by Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale.
August 02, 2012 |
Inside the Pentagon
The White
House needs to develop a national security strategy for its multibillion-dollar
efforts to build the security capacity of foreign countries, update Byzantine
processes for prioritizing and funding such projects, aid more civilian
security personnel as opposed to troops and find better ways to assess whether
individual initiatives are succeeding or failing, warns a State Department
draft report prepared for senior administration officials.
August 01, 2012 |
Daily News
Sequestration would negatively impact readiness and training, "indiscriminately" cut funding for nearly 2,500 programs and projects, reduce the number of weapons purchased and create an "unready, hollow military force," the Pentagon's No. 2 official told lawmakers today.
July 31, 2012 |
Daily News
On the eve of a scheduled showdown between Obama administration officials and House Republicans on the thorny issue of sequestration, the White House Office of Management and Budget today advised the Pentagon -- and other executive branch agencies -- that guidance on how to implement potential sequestration spending cuts is forthcoming.