President Joe Biden’s $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense budget request includes $842 billion for the Pentagon, a $26 billion, or 3.2 percent, increase over this year’s military spending plan with the “growing multi-domain threat posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)” again named the nation’s most pressing “pacing challenge.” Both Deputy Defense…
Pentagon’s $842 Billion Budget Focuses on China Threat
March 14, 2023
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US Says China Denied Request for Call With Pentagon Chief After Balloon Downing
February 8, 2023
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The United States attempted to contact China’s communist regime after its military shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon off the South Carolina coast on Feb. 4, but Beijing refused to take the call. The Pentagon said on Feb. 7 that it requested a phone call between U.S. defense secretary Lloyd Austin and Chinese defense…
US Military Logistics Capabilities ‘Inadequate’ in Asia, Pentagon Warns
May 4, 2022
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The U.S. Department of Defense said the logistics capabilities of the U.S. military are “inadequate” to counter possible hostilities in Asia, according to its April 2022 comptroller document. The document details the Pentagon’s proposed funding allocation of $6.1 billion for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) through 2023, with a continued focus on China as the…
Pentagon to Build up Bases in Guam and Australia to Counter China
December 1, 2021
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The United States military will be focusing on the upgrade and expansion of military bases in Guam and Australia to counter China’s military build-up in the Indo–Pacific region, the Pentagon said, following a review of U.S. troops and weapons around the world released on Nov. 29. The Pentagon’s global defense review also called for the…
Pentagon Implements Continuous Security Vetting on All Clearance Holders
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) has successfully enrolled all Defense Department clearance holders—service members, civilians, and contractors, a total of 3.6 million people—in a continuous security vetting program. The continuous vetting system is part of the Trusted Workforce 2.0, an initiative that will provide continuous vetting for all government personnel, not limited to…
NDAA Amendments Seek to Reform Pentagon’s ‘Revolving Door’
September 20, 2021
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A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that 14 major military contractors have hired 1,718 former senior Pentagon officials over a five-year span. A group of good-governance advocates are pushing reforms seeking to prevent potential conflicts of interest posed by this activity. The Sept. 9 GAO report found that of 1,497,882 people who left…
Pentagon: Service Members Can Request Exemptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
August 11, 2021
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U.S. military service members will be allowed to seek an exemption to the soon-to-be-mandated COVID-19 vaccines, which would be determined by individual military service regulations, a Pentagon spokesperson said. “There is a religious exemption possibility for any mandatory vaccine, and there’s a process that we go through to counsel the individual both from a medical and…
Pentagon: Service Members Can Request Exemptions From COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
August 11, 2021
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U.S. military service members will be allowed to seek an exemption from the soon-to-be-mandated COVID-19 vaccines, which would be determined by individual military service regulations, a Pentagon spokesperson said. “There is a religious exemption possibility for any mandatory vaccine, and there’s a process that we go through to counsel the individual both from a medical and…
Pentagon: Service Members Can Request Exceptions to COVID Vaccine Mandate
August 11, 2021
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A Pentagon spokesperson said military service members could request exceptions to the soon-to-be-mandated COVID-19 vaccines, which would be determined by individual military service regulations. “There is a religious exemption possibility for any mandatory vaccine, and there’s a process that we go through to counsel the individual both from a medical and from a command perspective…
Pentagon: Service Members Can Request Exceptions to COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
August 11, 2021
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A Pentagon spokesperson said military service members could request exceptions to the soon-to-be-mandated COVID-19 vaccines, which would be determined by individual military service regulations. “There is a religious exemption possibility for any mandatory vaccine, and there’s a process that we go through to counsel the individual both from a medical and from a command perspective…
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