by ADC | Feb 2, 2023 | Climate, Congress/DoD, On Base
The DOD Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration (REPI) Program recently announced its 2023 REPI Challenge recipients. The REPI program focuses on enhancing mission capabilities by promoting compatible land uses and improving military installation resilience...
by ADC | Feb 1, 2023 | Congress/DoD, On Base
DOD on Tuesday launched a new independent research group to make the department’s operations smoother and more efficient. The Defense Management Institute will be part of the nonprofit Institute for Defense Analyses, as Defense News reported. It will seek input from...
by ADC | Feb 1, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
President Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are meeting this afternoon at the White House to try to negotiate a solution to the nation’s debt limit crisis. The country has essentially reached its debt ceiling, and if Congress doesn’t act to raise the...
by ADC | Jan 31, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Housing, Military Families, NDAA, On Base
A new House Armed Services subcommittee on military quality of life will focus on issues like boosting pay for junior enlisted service members, military housing conditions, health coverage gaps, day care waiting lists and military spouse employment challenges, its...
by ADC | Jan 31, 2023 | Congress/DoD, On Base
Committees are still being organized on Capitol Hill, but their memberships are slowly becoming clearer. House Democrats, for example, have announced five new House members who will be joining the Armed Services Committee. They are Reps. Don Davis (N.C.), Chris...
by ADC | Jan 31, 2023 | Climate, Congress/DoD, In Our Communities, Intergovernmental Service Agreements, On Base
Five plant and animal species are being removed from the endangered species list thanks to conservation efforts on San Clemente Island, California, the Navy announced in a press release, saying it was a partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “The Navy...
by ADC | Jan 30, 2023 | Congress/DoD, On Base
Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.), the ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee told Fox News Sunday that he and committee chair Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) share “the huge priority” to increase the United States’ weapons production, because military readiness has become...
by ADC | Jan 30, 2023 | Congress/DoD, On Base
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met last week with Colorado Democratic Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper about the Pentagon’s decision to move Space Command from Colorado to Alabama. “We met with Secretary Austin today and agreed with DOD that politics...
by ADC | Jan 27, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The United States has officially hit its debt ceiling, according to the Treasury Department, which is now using short-term bookkeeping tactics to keep the government from defaulting on the amount it has borrowed to cover previous spending. Those tactics could get the...
