by ADC | May 18, 2023 | Congress/DoD, On Base
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl plans to leave the Pentagon this summer, NBC News reported, citing three unnamed officials. Kahl is expected to go back to his job as a Stanford University professor, NBC and Defense News reported. He has been in his job...
by ADC | May 17, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base, Veterans
The House Military Construction-VA Appropriations Subcommittee meets this morning to mark up its fiscal year 2024 bill. It will be livestreamed at 10 a.m. ET, and the video will be available afterward. The subcommittee released the bill text, a summary and a press...
by ADC | May 17, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
There is some hope in D.C. that the White House and House Republicans can reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling by the end of the month. Here are some of the developments so far this week, according to media reports. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that with new...
by ADC | May 17, 2023 | Congress/DoD, On Base
The Government Accountability Office has launched a review of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps after reports that at least 33 JROTC instructors had been criminally charged in sexual misconduct cases, as Spectrum News reported. “The more than 500,000...
by ADC | May 17, 2023 | Congress/DoD, On Base
Reps. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) and Jason Crow (D-Colo.) are again pushing to crease a Space National Guard, an idea both the Trump and Biden administrations have opposed, Space News reported. The White House has said that a Space National Guard would be expensive and...
by ADC | May 16, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base, PFAS, Water
The Pentagon isn’t asking Congress for enough money to address PFAS at current and former installations, meaning some sites won’t get cleaned up for 50 years, the Environmental Working Group said Monday. “The department’s funding requests keep disappointing...
by ADC | May 16, 2023 | On Base, Recruitment
The Coast Guard has fallen short of its recruitment targets for the past four years, according to the Government Accountability Office, as Federal Times reported. “Competition with higher paying jobs in the private sector, limited opportunities for promotion and long...
by ADC | May 16, 2023 | Congress/DoD, On Base
The Space Force needs help with its mission, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman said Monday. “I have some concerns with our current mission statement,” Saltzman wrote in a memo to all guardians, as Politico reported. “My biggest concern is that the mission...
by ADC | May 15, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Military Families, On Base
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spent several hours Friday at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he met with soldiers and military families, as Stars and Stripes reported. “My No. 1 priority is to defend this country,” he told a group of soldiers with the 82nd Airborne...
by ADC | May 15, 2023 | Congress/DoD, Defense Budget, On Base
If the nation can’t pay its bills, it would have a “detrimental” effect on the United States’ reputation, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Friday. “It sends a horrible message to nations like Russia and China, who would love nothing more...
