Senators Want 'Permanent' Solution to Save A-10 from Retirement Senators say they want to end the annual fight with the Air Force to preserve the A-10 Thunderbolt in the active duty fleet.
Carter Blasts GOP Plan to Use War Funds for Base Defense Budget The top civilian at DoD slammed Republican lawmakers' plan to use emergency war funding to get around spending caps.
McCain Hits Bomb-Sniffing Elephants, NASCAR Ads as Wasteful Spending Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, is slamming federal spending on programs he said are merely wasting taxpayer dollars.
Senate Panel Backs Military Retirement Change, Troop Pay Raise of 1.3% Lawmakers on a Senate panel agreed to overhaul the military retirement system and give troops a less-than-expected pay raise...
White House Blasts ‘Budget Gimmicks’ in House Defense Spending Bill The White House is criticizing proposed defense spending legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives for relying on...
Mabus Says Pentagon Should Target Budget Cuts on Bureaucratic Overhead Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Pentagon budget cutters should eliminate extra bureaucracy before slashing funds for sailors.
Army Could Cut 3,400 Contractor Jobs at Three Bases The Army could cut the jobs of 3,400 contract workers in vital support jobs at stateside bases if Congress fails to ease the...
Pentagon Says It Needs $270 Billion to Upgrade Nuclear Arsenal The U.S. will need to spend as much as $18 billion per year starting in 2021 in order to maintain a viable nuclear deterrence...
GAO Rejects Air Force Arguments to Retire A-10 Warthog Fleet The Air Force has both overestimated and underestimated the savings from retiring the A-10 fleet, according to the GAO.
Navy Launches New Affordability Plan for Ford-Class Carriers The Navy plans to invest $25M a year beginning in 2017 in techniques to lower the cost of building its Ford-class carriers.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
