by ADC | Apr 8, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships, On Base
The Air Force is always looking to its installations and its community partners to identify best operational practices that can be replicated at other installations, Jennifer Miller, the acting assistant secretary of the Air Force for installations, environment and...
by ADC | Apr 8, 2021 | Congress/DoD, On Base
The Department of Defense is still struggling to return to its full readiness capacity after two decades of conflict and counting, the Government Accountability Office said in a report published this week. The report looked at readiness from the period 2017 to 2019....
by ADC | Apr 8, 2021 | Congress/DoD, On Base
President Joe Biden’s budget outline expected to be released Friday will call for $715 billion for the Pentagon in fiscal year 2022, Politico reported late Thursday, citing “three people familiar with the proposal.” That would be about a 1.5% increase over the $704...
by ADC | Apr 7, 2021 | Congress/DoD, On Base
President Joe Biden is expected to release an outline of his fiscal year 2022 budget request Friday, kicking off the annual budget and appropriations season, officials said. The budget will likely be light on details, while the administration finishes its more...
by ADC | Apr 5, 2021 | Congress/DoD, On Base
When it comes to defense spending, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, is on a mission to hold onto “a lot of the stuff that we gained during the Trump administration,” he said in a new Politico interview. As the Biden...
by ADC | Apr 5, 2021 | Congress/DoD, On Base
President Joe Biden has nominated Mike McCord to serve as DOD comptroller, a role he held from 2014 to 2017. Since that time, he has overseen civil-military programs at the Stennis Center for Public Service and served on the board of trustees for the Aerospace Corp.,...
by ADC | Apr 4, 2021 | Congress/DoD, On Base
Democratic senators from four states are pressing federal investigators on whether politics played into the Trump administration’s 11th-hour decision to move U.S. Space Command headquarters from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama. There were several...
by ADC | Apr 1, 2021 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, On Base
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) is asking the Department of Defense to revise its cooperative agreement with the state to reflect the state’s stricter standards for PFAS cleanup, Michigan Live reported. The state’s regulations allow for a lower level of...
by ADC | Mar 31, 2021 | Congress/DoD, On Base
Addressing issues in the defense supply chain will help build up the U.S. workforce, Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) told Defense News in a wide-ranging interview. Norcross chairs the House Armed Services subcommittee on tactical air and land forces and is a member of a...
