March 12, 2024 Today's D Brief: Budget drop; Ukraine’s wide-ranging drone raid; Somalia strike; Space Force interview; And a bit more. Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston March 12, 2024 Pentagon budget request aims to balance congressional limits, foreign needs, and innovation ...
Beset by security issues at home and along its borders, the Indian government unveiled its Fiscal Year 2024-25 defense budget on July 23. Funds amounted to 6.219 trillion rupees, or approximately $74.3 billion in U.S. dollars, according to a governmentpress release. Defense received the highe...
The defense ministry explained at its budget request for the next fiscal year 2024 that the new ships will be 190 meters long, 25 meters wide, and have a standard displacement of 12,000 tons. In comparison, the two Maya-class Aegis-equipped destroyers are 170 meters long, 21 meters wide,...
The House has removed $300 million in Ukraine aid from its fiscal year 2024 defenseappropriations legislation and is set to consider the funding as a separate bill.The move is a bid from Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to shore up enough Republicansupport to pass the House's $826.5 ...
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March 15, 2024 During the week of March 11, 2024 the Defense Department released the fiscal year 2025 budget justification books for U.S. Cyber Command. 220544 Not a subscriber? Sign up for 30 days free access to exclusive, behind-the-scenes reporting on defense policy and procurement....
The Defense Department is bracing for potential budget cuts of about $90 billion to fiscal year 2024 and 2025 plans -- painful reductions likely to squeeze weapons system modernization accounts -- in the event congressional dysfunction extends into Janua
US Navy delays next-gen attack submarine SSN(X) program to 2040 amid budget constraints 27 Dec, 2024 - 11:14 | Naval News Navy 2024 The U.S. Navy has announced a delay in its Next-Generation Attack Submarine (SSN[X]) program, pushing the first procurement from Fiscal Year (FY) 2....
Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS) released a proposal today that would shatter the defense spending cap mandated by the Fiscal Responsibility Act by $55 billion, arguing U.S. military spending needs to skyrocket to deter China, Russia and other potential adversaries...
will slip two years to begin in 2027. The arrival of the aircraft carrier currently known as CVN 82 may slide even more: the new budget proposal moves its purchase from 2028 to beyond the new five-year plan that ends in FY 2029—a schedule that is drawingdire warningsfrom shipbuilders and...