Marine Corps Plans to Expand Use of Partnership Authority following Early Success
- Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- April 12, 2017
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Hampton Roads Turns the Corner but Challenges Loom, Report Says0
- Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- October 16, 2018
With a ballooning national debt and the threat of a future BRAC round, Virginia’s Hampton Roads region should seek to expand its cluster of defense missions. “This [defense] is an asset,” said Old Dominion University economist Vinod Agarwal. “We should not ignore the assets we have,” said Agarwal, who spoke to the Virginian-Pilot following the
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DOD Shouldn’t Get Used to Regular Order for Its Next Spending Bill0
- Congress/DoD
- October 10, 2018
The Pentagon obtained a historic, 10 percent jump in its topline funding in fiscal 2018 and a further increase this year following a two-year budget deal lawmakers reached in February, but a possible change in control of the House and the return of the statutory spending caps could upset Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ plans to
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Administration, Lawmakers Need to Confront Budget Challenges Facing Installations, Conger Says0
- Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- October 9, 2018
In an essay accompanying the Heritage Foundation’s 2019 Index of U.S. Military Strength, John Conger, who led the Pentagon’s installations office from 2012 to 2015, highlights the challenges facing DOD’s installations enterprise — years of underfunding, congressional opposition to a new BRAC round, increasing pressures from encroachment, and threats to mission assurance including energy outages,
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Around Town: DOD Can Say Sayonara to CRs; Immigrant Investor Program Gains Short-Term Extension0
- Base Redevelopment/ Environmental Cleanup, Congress/DoD
- October 1, 2018
President Donald Trump on Friday signed a two-bill spending package that fully funds the Pentagon in fiscal 2019, lifting defense officials from the challenge of coping with short-term spending measures for the first time in 10 years. The legislation’s enactment marks a rare achievement, especially after the president one week earlier signed a three-bill package
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House Passes FY’19 Defense Spending Package, Sending it to White House0
- Congress/DoD
- September 27, 2018
The Pentagon is on the cusp of receiving a full-year spending measure for fiscal 2019 after the House on Wednesday easily adopted the conference report for a two-bill spending package covering the defense and labor-HHS-education titles. The legislation, which provides $606.5 billion for the base defense budget and $67.9 billion in overseas contingency funds, now
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Around Town: Army Falls Short of Target End Strength; President to Sign Defense Spending Package, Thornberry Believes0
- Congress/DoD, Mission Support/Community Partnerships
- September 26, 2018
The Army failed to meets in end-of-the-year target for active-duty end strength as a healthy job market prevented the service from adding 7,500 soldiers to reach 483,500 by the end of fiscal 2018. As a result, the Army’s active-duty end strength remains at 476,000, unchanged from one year ago, reports Army Times. The FY 2019
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