Navy Speeds Up Ship Retirements as It Ramps Up Investment in New Platforms While the Navy's most recent plan included plans to decommission 48 active ships by 2026, the new budget request speeds up...
Troops Would See 2.7% Pay Raise Under Proposed DoD Budget The proposed budget would also provide an average 3.1% increase in troops' basic allowance for housing payments.
Space Force Is the Only Military Service Set to Grow Under Biden's Budget Plan The fledgling Space Force would grow from 6,434 Guardians in fiscal 2021 to about 8,400 next year.
Army Grunts May Get More Guns, But Less Ammo Next Year The Army is seeking a big boost in new weapons for combat-arms units in its 2022 budget request.
'At What Point Does VA Become Adequately Funded?' Republicans Question Record Budget Request In 2000, the Department of Veterans Affairs' budget was $47 billion; this year, it is $240 billion.
Air Force Tells Congress It Needs Major Funding for Military Construction Backlog Brig. Gen. William Kale said the service has built databases to track facility conditions and is implementing a plan...
CNO Says Navy Department Has Strong Case for Getting Bigger Slice of Defense Budget Gilday has for more than a year said his service needs a bigger portion of the budget to build more ships and submarines.
VA Wants Dramatic Budget Increase, Continuing Trend of Soaring Spending VA Secretary Denis McDonough urged Congress to back a massive funding increase to boost efforts in homelessness assistance...
Biden's 1st Budget Request Sidelines Defense Spending in Favor of Massive Domestic Investments President Joe Biden issued his first budget proposal, requesting $753 billion for defense-related spending, an essentially...
DoD Spent Hundreds of Millions on Air Transport in Afghanistan -- But Didn't Ask Allies for Repayment From September 2017 through September 2020, the U.S. military paid $773 million for air transportation provided to U.S...
Veterans Could Get Free Gun Safes Under Suicide Prevention Proposal Introduced in House Any veteran who wants a lockbox to store their firearm would be able to get one for free from the Department of Veterans...
Army Delays Bonus Pay for Deployed Soldiers The pay bump was due to begin next Tuesday, but Army officials said that all the details of the bonus had never been sorted...
The Air Force Unveiled an Ambitious Reorganization Plan. Can It Survive a Presidential Election? The Department of the Air Force's ambitious reorganization plan designed to keep the Air Force and Space Force competitive...
VA Employee Charged with Threatening Ordered to Wear GPS Monitor A carpenter at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Manchester, N.H., has been released on conditions he wear...
Keesler Command Chief Sacked After Investigation Ordered by Training Wing Colonel The command chief of the 81st Training Wing at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi was removed from his leadership role...