by ADC | Jun 23, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley are once again testifying before lawmakers Wednesday morning about President Joe Biden’s $715 billion DOD budget request, this time at a House Armed Services Committee hearing. Here are some...
by ADC | Jun 18, 2021 | Congress/DoD, COVID-19, Defense Budget, On Base
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley urged lawmakers Thursday to reimburse the National Guard for months of deployment to secure the U.S. Capitol complex. The deployment of Guard members from all 50 states, three territories and...
by ADC | Jun 17, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Senate Budget Committee Democrats are drafting a budget resolution that may not match up with the one being drafted by House Democrats. Senate committee members huddled with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) Wednesday in preparation, according to CQ. The...
by ADC | Jun 15, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
House appropriators will begin work on fiscal year 2022 spending bills June 24, according to a schedule released Tuesday by Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). The subcommittee overseeing military construction and Veterans Affairs will be among the...
by ADC | Jun 14, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The House narrowly voted Monday night to adopt a $1.5 trillion spending cap requested by President Joe Biden. The language, part of a procedural measure on unrelated legislation, allows the House to proceed with appropriations bills even before debating a formal...
by ADC | Jun 10, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Mark Milley agreed with lawmakers Thursday that the Pentagon is taking risk by cutting some legacy weapons systems to instead focus on forward-looking technologies. “It has to do with relevance and pivoting to the future,” Milley told the...
by ADC | Jun 9, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The vice chiefs of staff of the military services testified about the Pentagon’s budget at a Wednesday hearing of the House Armed Services readiness subcommittee. Lawmakers continued to question whether the budget leans too heavily on new technologies instead of...
by ADC | Jun 9, 2021 | Defense Budget, News from ADC, On Base
Joe Gould, who covers Congress for Defense News, talked with ADC’s Matt Borron about what’s in the administration’s defense budget request and what to expect on Capitol Hill. Watch here.
by ADC | Jun 8, 2021 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The Biden Pentagon is right to focus on emerging technologies in its budget request for fiscal year 2022, former DOD Comptroller David Norquist told Politico’s Morning Defense. “Their budget is now the largest RDT&E budget,” he said. “Why? Because that’s where we...
