Tag: defense spending

President Donald Trump signed the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act into law in an event held in the White House on Tuesday.  The bill represents a significant step toward ending the current continuing resolution spending the Defense Department has been trapped under since the start of the new fiscal year on November 1st, but the […]

For months now, America’s defense leaders have been asking the nation’s lawmakers to provide consistent and stable funding for the country’s defensive infrastructure.  America, which boasts the largest military on the face of the globe and has conducted continuous combat operations in multiple theaters while maintaining a stabilizing presence in nearly every corner of the […]

Over the years, I’ve done a fair amount of traveling, both in uniform as a U.S. Marine and on my own accord, and although this may sound a little too much like a meme you might find on Tumblr, those experiences have indeed granted me a bit of perspective.   No, it wasn’t about the deeper […]

Nearly a month and a half after the onset of the new fiscal year, the House and Senate have agreed on a number of reconciliation measures between their disparate defense budgets.  The combined defense spending bill will bring a much-needed influx of cash into America’s under-maintained and over-worked fighting force, but there’s one problem: even […]

Senior aviation officials from all four branches testified before Congress on Thursday to emphasize the need for budget certainty in the future in order to maintain America’s combat readiness in the skies. Over the past ten years of combat operations, the Department of Defense has been forced to continue operations under what’s called “continuing resolution” […]

Nearly a full month into the new fiscal year, the Department of Defense continues to operate without an approved budget, limiting the Pentagon’s ability to manage contracts, and hindering maintenance and training initiatives needed to save lives. The longer the continuing resolution replaces a budget, the more damaging it is to DoD,” Pentagon spokesperson Dana […]

The United States has earned its reputation as a military powerhouse through blood and fire.  American military personnel have conducted continuous combat operations the world over for the better part of two decades now, all the while maintaining a massive naval footprint that keeps shipping lanes safe and secure and bolstering the defenses of allies […]

Back in the early days of the F-35 program, the powers that be were full of excitement and optimism as they looked toward the future.  The plane they were developing would create jobs in nearly every state in the U.S., it would be the most advanced airframe ever to take to the skies, and it […]

Although President Donald Trump touted the idea of a 350 active ship Navy along the way to the White House, fiscal limitations coupled the government’s general inability to pass a defense budget has made that goal seem awfully unlikely – especially as some of the Navy’s largest, most powerful warships approach the end of their […]

American Secretary of Defense James Mattis released a force wide memo late last week, underscoring the importance of bringing America’s military back into a state of readiness, while also emphasizing the importance of alliance building and business reform in the Department of Defense. Mattis, who echoed these sentiments in a speech he delivered on Monday, […]

Despite both Congress and the Senate passing their own versions of a new defense budget, one which calls for the establishment of a new space-based branch of the military and another that calls for an even larger influx of funding than President Trump requested, the Department of Defense officially began yet another fiscal year without […]

The U.S. Senate passed its own version of the new defense budget on Monday, surpassing even President Trump’s requests for an increase in funding to bolster the nation’s military.  Although the chamber is Republican controlled, the $700 billion defense policy bill received support from both sides of the aisle on its way to an 89-8 […]