Marine Corps Plans to Expand Use of Partnership Authority following Early Success
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Pentagon Won’t Be Able to Implement Defense Strategy under President’s FY‘20 Budget Request, Analyst Says0
- Congress/DoD
- November 26, 2018
Increasing bipartisan concern about the nation’s growing debt makes it very unlikely Congress will provide sufficient funding for DOD to carry out the new National Defense Strategy which emphasizes great-power competition, according to an op-ed by Mackenzie Eaglen, a resident fellow at American Enterprise Institute. “Contrary to the president’s rhetoric, there is no forthcoming Trump
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Inside the Pentagon: End Strength among Options for Cuts in New Budget Request; Air Force Making Strides toward Readiness Target; Military Could Lose Its Competitive Advantage, Dunford Says0
- Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- November 19, 2018
Defense officials will consider changes to end strength among a number of program areas that could lose out as the Pentagon develops a new fiscal 2020 budget request that cuts $33 billion from its original $733 billion proposal for national security. The exercise will require the administration to weigh the tradeoffs involved with modifying the
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Inside the Pentagon: Force Structure Goal for Air Force Could Change; Department Fails First-Ever Audit0
- Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- November 16, 2018
The target size for the Air Force of 386 squadrons, which Secretary Heather Wilson announced in September, could be adjusted as the service develops new operating concepts, Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Stephen “Seve” Wilson said Wednesday. New approaches to warfighting would be particularly applicable to fighter squadrons, the general said. Approaching the goal of
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U.S. Superiority ‘No Longer Assured,’ Panel Warns0
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- November 15, 2018
The United States is not guaranteed to prevail in its next conflict, given the gains achieved by the nation’s adversaries in upgrading their military capabilities while the U.S. military was held back as it contended with stringent spending constraints, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Defense Strategy Commission. “If the United States
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Inhofe to Oppose Possible Cut in Defense Spending0
- Congress/DoD
- November 15, 2018
Senate Armed Services Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) on Wednesday said he would oppose a budget request that trims defense spending by 2.2 percent to $700 billion in fiscal 2020, a figure top administration officials have said President Trump is planning to propose. Inhofe said $733 billion, the spending level for national security originally proposed by
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Regular Haircut Won’t Be Used to Produce Smaller FY‘20 Defense Budget0
- Congress/DoD
- November 14, 2018
The Pentagon will not simply apply a fixed, across-the-board reduction to its original fiscal 2020 budget request as it develops an alternate proposal with a topline $33 billion lower than the initial one, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told Defense News. “No salami slicing. It’s not about sending a memo to the departments: ‘Here’s your
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