by ADC | Feb 6, 2025 | Congress/DoD, Energy, Environment, On Base
President Trump has nominated Dale Marks as assistant secretary of defense for energy, installations and environment, as Get The Coast reported. Marks currently oversees operations at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida as executive director of the 96th Test Wing. Politico...
by ADC | Dec 10, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Energy, NDAA, On Base
The House-Senate compromise version of the National Defense Authorization Act announced over the weekend includes a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted officers, according to materials released by the House Armed Services Committee and reports from Roll Call and other...
by ADC | Dec 6, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Energy, On Base
Former Fox News host Pete Hegseth has spent the week meeting with Republican senators to try to get their support for his troubled nomination to become Defense secretary. “I think most people do not expect Hegseth to make it,” a Republican senator told The Hill....
by ADC | Dec 5, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Energy, On Base
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will not include an additional round of aid for Ukraine in a stopgap spending bill, Politico reported. The White House requested the funding to make weapons to send to Ukraine and refill the U.S. military’s stock. “It is not the...
by ADC | Dec 5, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Energy, On Base
President-elect Trump has nominated Daniel Driscoll, an Army veteran who served in the Iraq war to lead the Army, as AP reported. A friend and aide to Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, Driscoll has worked in investment banking and as a consultant in North Carolina....
by ADC | Dec 4, 2024 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, Defense Communities National Summit, Energy, News from ADC, On Base
President-elect Donald Trump has offered billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg the role of deputy defense secretary, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. In Trump’s first term, Feinberg led the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. Feinberg is co-CEO of Cerberus...
by ADC | Dec 3, 2024 | Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, Defense Communities National Summit, Energy, News from ADC, On Base
The federal government is set to shut down on Dec. 20 if Congress doesn’t reach an agreement on fiscal year 2025 spending by then. Following the elections, House Republicans decided not to try to finish work on all 12 appropriations bills and instead work on a...
by ADC | Jun 21, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Energy, On Base
The Pentagon this week announced a “first-of-its-kind partnership” with Duke Energy to power five installations in North and South Carolina with solar electricity through 2041. The $248 million procurement will provide carbon-free electricity to Fort Liberty, Marine...
by ADC | Jan 30, 2024 | Congress/DoD, Energy, Environment, Installation Innovation, On Base
DOD’s Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) is accepting pre-proposals of “innovative environmental and installation energy technologies” as it looks to fiscal year 2025 funding, according to a news release. ESTCP demonstrates cutting-edge...
