by ADC | Jan 6, 2022 | Congress/DoD, COVID-19, On Base
The Navy has terminated the first 20 sailors due to refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, the service announced Wednesday, as Military Times reported. They were all in initial training within their first 180 days of active duty. “The Navy said a total of 5,268 active duty...
by ADC | Jan 5, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
House Appropriations Committee leaders seems likely to approve a $740 billion topline spending number for defense, according to Politico’s National Security Daily. That is about $25 billion more than the administration first requested. The higher number is more in...
by ADC | Jan 4, 2022 | Congress/DoD, On Base
DOD is appointing a single point of contact for requests to activate the D.C. National Guard to support local law enforcement, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote in a memo dated Dec. 30. The Guard’s activation was delayed on Jan. 6, and Austin ordered a review of...
by ADC | Jan 3, 2022 | Congress/DoD, COVID-19, On Base
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced Sunday night that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Austin is fully vaccinated and had a booster shot. His doctor told him his case would be more severe if he hadn’t had all three shots, Austin said in a statement. “The...
by ADC | Jan 3, 2022 | Congress/DoD, On Base
Here are some of the key dates and issues we’re watching over the next few weeks. 3: The Senate reconvenes. 6: President Biden speaks at the Capitol on the anniversary of the 2021 insurrection. 10: The House reconvenes. 25: The President delivers the State of the...
by ADC | Jan 3, 2022 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
As Congress starts its 2022 work, it has just a few weeks until its next big deadline: The current stopgap spending bill expires Feb. 18, and Congress has not yet finalized any of the 12 annual appropriations bills for the fiscal year that started in October....
by ADC | Dec 23, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Installation Innovation, On Base
Tech startups and venture capital firms are signaling to the Pentagon that the clock is ticking if defense leaders want their help on new innovations, Breaking Defense reported from this month’s Reagan National Defense Forum. “We have, at most, two years before...
by ADC | Dec 22, 2021 | Congress/DoD, COVID-19, On Base
President Biden has ordered the Pentagon to prepare 1,000 military medical personnel to deploy to hospitals across the country as the omicron variant spreads rapidly. They will mobilize in January and February, the White House said. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby...
by ADC | Dec 22, 2021 | Congress/DoD, COVID-19
A ruling is expected next week in a hearing about whether the Navy has to comply with Hawaii officials’ demands that they empty the Red Hill fuel tank that contaminated drinking water at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, displacing thousands through the holidays, AP...
