by ADC | Mar 19, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Negotiators have finalized a deal on a six-bill spending package for the current fiscal year, potentially avoiding a government shutdown Friday night. The package includes defense spending. “We have come to an agreement with Congressional leaders on a path forward for...
by ADC | Mar 19, 2024 | Congress/DoD, On Base
Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley will testify on Capitol Hill this afternoon about what went wrong during the 2021 withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan when he was chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He’ll be joined at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing with...
by ADC | Mar 18, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Friday is the deadline for Congress to pass the final six appropriations bills for the current fiscal year. The defense appropriations bill is part of the package. Punchbowl News reported this morning that negotiators have finished work on defense spending and other...
by ADC | Mar 18, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Communities National Summit
Air Force leaders who oversee installation management will take questions from attendees at next month’s Defense Communities National Summit, as ADC announced last week. Panelists at the Air Force Communities Town Hall include: Ravi Chaudhary, assistant Air Force...
by ADC | Mar 15, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Russia-Ukraine
Joint Chiefs Chair Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown and a group of lawmakers toured a Lockheed Martin plant in Arkansas and McAlester Army Ammunition Plant in Oklahoma Thursday. The “trip was part of the Pentagon’s full-court press to get the House to move forward on a $95...
by ADC | Mar 14, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Mental Health, On Base, Veterans
The head of the American Legion said Wednesday that the veterans organization would be willing to work with lawmakers on an initiative to safely store veterans’ guns at American Legion posts, especially for those who are in duress and may be contemplating suicide....
by ADC | Mar 13, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Military Families, On Base, Quality of Life
The Pentagon’s budget request released this week would make more military families eligible for the Basic Needs Allowance, Military Times reported. The BNA helps lower-income service members who have at least one dependent and a gross household income up to 150% of...
by ADC | Mar 13, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base, Russia-Ukraine
The White House announced Tuesday it’s sending $300 million in military aid to Ukraine. “When Russian troops advance and its guns fire, Ukraine does not have enough ammunition to fire back,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters. “That’s costing...
by ADC | Mar 12, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The Pentagon Monday released a nearly $850 billion budget request for fiscal year 2025. That’s just a slight increase from what is expected to be an $841 billion budget for the current fiscal year, which lawmakers have not yet finalized, The Hill reported. The request...
