by ADC | Mar 26, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Communities National Summit, Foreign Investment, On Base
The fiscal year 2024 defense spending bill signed into law over the weekend ordered further examination of foreign investors’ potential land purchases near military sites. Based on language attached to the spending bill, DOD now has six months to send Congress a...
by ADC | Mar 26, 2024 | Congress/DoD, On Base
DOD’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs is hosting a webinar Wednesday at 4 p.m. Eastern time to discuss the National Defense Industrial Strategy. “The priorities detailed in the NDIS serve as a helpful guide to state and local leaders who want to identify ways to...
by ADC | Mar 26, 2024 | Congress/DoD, On Base
Sasha Baker, the Pentagon’s acting policy chief will leave her position next month, as Defense News reported. She has been in the position since Colin Kahl left last summer. The Senate has not yet taken up the nomination of Derek Chollet, a senior State Department...
by ADC | Mar 25, 2024 | Congress/DoD, On Base
The Senate passed a spending package early Saturday morning to keep the government open. The package funded the remaining six unfunded spending bills through the current fiscal year, which is about half over. President Joe Biden signed the spending package into law,...
by ADC | Mar 25, 2024 | Congress/DoD, On Base, Russia-Ukraine
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said Sunday he thinks Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will bring a Ukraine aid bill to the floor when the House returns in two weeks. “I believe he’s committed, because he understands national security,”...
by ADC | Mar 22, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The House is expected to vote this morning on a package of six spending bills, including the one that funds defense, but House leaders were still trying to put together the votes for the bill to pass with the required two-thirds majority, Politico reported. If it...
by ADC | Mar 22, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Installation Innovation, On Base
Reps. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) and Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) are co-chairing a new bipartisan caucus focused on defense modernization, Defense Scoop reported. “As the nature of warfare continues to evolve, we must prioritize the modernization of our joint forces,” Wittman wrote...
by ADC | Mar 21, 2024 | Congress/DoD, DCIP, Defense Budget, Defense Manufacturing Community Support Program, On Base
Negotiators released text of a six-bill spending package early this morning with hopes of getting it to President Biden before a partial government shutdown would begin Friday night. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is waiving the rule that requires 72 hours from...
by ADC | Mar 21, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Israel-Hamas, On Base
The Navy is sending three cargo ships and about 260 sailors to support the Army-led effort to build a floating pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians, Navy Times reported. The sailors are from Naval Beach Group 1, based in San Diego. The Army’s 7th...
