Congress Returns. Fresh off its week-long Memorial Day recess, Congress plans to receive testimony from military service leaders on the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2018 budget request. The Senate Armed Services Committee will hear from the Air Force on June 6 and the Navy and Marine Corps on June 8. ...
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The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) conducted its first test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system’s Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) against an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)-like target, the agency said on Tuesday.The MDA launched an ICBM-range target from Kwjalein Atoll in ...
Quiet Congress. Congress held a flurry of hearings the week of May 22 to review the Trump administration's newly unveiled fiscal year 2018 budget request. The week of May 29 is expected to be much quieter on Capitol Hill, as lawmakers headed home for a Memorial Day break.Thornberry Bill. Rep. ...
The Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull released Australia’s first Naval Shipbuilding Plan on May 16, outlining the country’s largest shipbuilding and sustainment program with $970 million of investments.The funds are set to develop infrastructure in Australia’s shipyards so the ...
The U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self Defense Forces (JMSDF) completed a passing exercise (PASSEX) in the South China Sea on May 18, the Navy said on May 19.A PASSEX includes personnel exchanges, cross-deck flight operations, communications exercised, division tactics, a tracking exercise, and ...
The U.S. Navy’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget request released Tuesday increases Navy funding from $135 billion to $145 billion, but most of the new money goes into the operations and maintenance accounts.The new Navy procurement request is little changed from the last Obama administration request, ...
The U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self Defense Forces (JMSDF) completed a passing exercise (PASSEX) in the South China Sea on May 18, the Navy said Friday.A PASSEX includes personnel exchanges, cross-deck flight operations, communications exercised, division tactics, a tracking exercise, and photo ...
Joint Chiefs. President Donald Trump has nominated Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford and Air Force Gen. Paul Selva to continue as chairman and vice chairman, respectively, of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon announced late May 19. Both generals have served in their current positions since 2015 ...
The Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull released Australia’s first Naval Shipbuilding Plan last Tuesday, outlining the country’s largest shipbuilding and sustainment program with $970 million of investments.The funds are set to develop infrastructure in Australia’s shipyards so the ...
Romania takes its NATO missile defense commitments seriously due to a missile proliferation threat from outside the Europe-Atlantic region, the country’s ambassador said May 10.NATO allies live in an increasingly uncertain world where security and defense cannot be taken for granted amid Russian ...