by ADC | Apr 29, 2025 | Congress/DoD, DCIP, Defense Budget, Housing, On Base, Quality of Life
The House Armed Services Committee will mark up legislation this morning that would provide DOD an additional $150 billion for the current fiscal year, along with enacting most of President Trump’s domestic policy agenda. The DOD funding section of the bill includes:...
by arhoden | Apr 16, 2025 | Defense Budget, On Base
An executive order President Trump signed last week is designed to “revitalize and rebuild domestic maritime industries and workforce to promote national security and economic prosperity.” The order, named “Restoring America’s Maritime Dominance,” lists several policy...
by ADC | Apr 8, 2025 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
President Trump said Monday night that the administration is working on the largest ever defense budget request – around $1 trillion. “$1 trillion, and nobody’s seen anything like it,” Trump said Monday during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,...
by ADC | Mar 31, 2025 | BRAC, Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The federal government’s current efforts to cut spending are causing uncertainty that feels familiar to defense communities after rounds of base realignment and closure, ADC President Karen Holt wrote in an op-ed published in Stars and Stripes. “Are we heading into a...
by ADC | Mar 31, 2025 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The Department of Defense will “realign the size of our civilian workforce and strategically restructure it to supercharge our American warfighters,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote in a new memo, according to a DOD news story. The memo calls for a reduction in...
by arhoden | Mar 21, 2025 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
Now that DOD and other federal agencies will finish the fiscal year at 2024 spending levels, top Republican appropriators have sent detailed spending suggestions to the Pentagon, Defense News reported. The document recommends reductions on some weapons systems and the...
by ADC | Mar 19, 2025 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base, Veterans
Pentagon officials said today that DOD will reduce its civilian workforce by 5% to 8%, AP reported. That amounts to dropping 45,000 to 72,000 positions. An official told AP that DOD will achieve the cuts three ways: terminating probationary employees, not filling...
by ADC | Mar 17, 2025 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, Defense Communities National Summit, On Base
President Trump signed a stopgap spending bill Saturday that kept the government open and operating at fiscal year 2024 spending levels through September, the end of fiscal year 2025. The bill provides a small boost for defense spending and secures funding for a...
by ADC | Mar 14, 2025 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
The Senate will vote today on the six-month stopgap spending bill the House passed earlier this week to avert a government shutdown tonight. It would keep fiscal year 2024 spending through September 30, the end of fiscal year 2025. Many Democrats wanted a shorter-term...
