Category: US FY24 Military Budget

Pentagon Leaders Say Tuberville’s Hold on Military Promotions Threatens National Security

May 11, 2023
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) indefinite hold on military promotions in protest of the Department of Defense’s (DOD) “reproductive health” policy is having a definite effect on national security “in every theater, every domain, and every service,” U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told a Senate panel on May 11. Austin and Joint Chiefs of Staff…

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House GOP Budget Plan Would Derail $630 Billion in Planned Defense Projects, Pentagon Leaders Say

May 11, 2023
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Dialing spending back to Fiscal Year 2022 levels would cost the Department of Defense (DOD) at least $100 billion next year and set back weapons procurement by more than $630 billion over the next five years, the Pentagon’s chief number-cruncher told a Senate panel on May 11. But the 14 percent slash in the military’s…

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Pentagon Officials Acknowledge Uncertainty in Defending Against Hypersonic Missiles

May 10, 2023
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The United States Department of Defense (DOD) is seeking nearly $30 billion in its $680 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) budget request for missile defeat and defense programs across all branches of the military. Right now, the DOD is in a race to develop its own hypersonic missiles and engineer effective defenses against the high-velocity,…

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Military That Hustles New Technologies Into Battle First Will Win Future Wars: Panel

May 9, 2023
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Exponentially evolving technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning have been exhaustively discussed and debated over the winter and spring during Congressional hearings on President Joe Biden’s $860 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense request. But one stubborn systemic disconnect threatens to disrupt the timely delivery of new systems and programs into weapons and…

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Pentagon Officials Say Integrating New Weapons Systems Can Cause Battlefield Disruption

April 13, 2023
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President Joe Biden’s $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense budget request includes $145 billion for research and development into emerging technologies to create new weapons systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI), hypersonic munitions, and electromagnetic swarms. The Department of Defense (DOD) and its subsidiary military branch technology laboratories, working in tandem universities and high-tech contractors…

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The Disruptive Military Technologies That the Pentagon Is Spending Nearly $150 Billion On

April 13, 2023
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President Joe Biden’s $886.3 billion Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) defense budget request includes $145 billion for research and development into emerging technologies to create new weapons systems using Artificial Intelligence (AI), hypersonic munitions, and electromagnetic swarms. The Department of Defense (DOD) and its subsidiary military branch technology laboratories, working in tandem with universities and high-tech…

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House GOP: Pentagon ‘Wokeism’ Hurts Recruiting, Degrades Readiness

March 30, 2023
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House Republicans insist the Biden administration’s emphasis on “woke” policies, such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training, is politicizing the U.S. military and degrading the Pentagon’s readiness to fight a war. House Democrats say Republicans are beating a “woke” drum to politicize army, navy, and air force recruiting shortfalls that the Pentagon—citing statistical surveys—attributes…

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Supply Chain Disruption, Design Delays, Cost Overruns Cloud US ‘Nuclear Triad’ Upgrades: Pentagon Officials

March 29, 2023
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President Joe Biden’s $863 billion Fiscal Year 2024 [FY24] defense budget request includes $23.8 billion for the United States Department of Energy [DOE] to produce nuclear weapons and manage the nation’s strategic stockpile and $37.7 billion for the Pentagon to operate its “nuclear enterprise.” That “nuclear enterprise” is America’s land-air-sea “triad” strategic force posture—intercontinental ballistic…

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China Not Ready to Take on US, but Is ‘Rapidly Closing the Gap,’ Generals Testify

March 23, 2023
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China’s military planners publicly proclaim the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will be the world’s dominant military power by 2049, and the first step in that ascension is controlling the South China Sea to incorporate Taiwan, by force if necessary, into the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) by 2027. None of this is going to happen,…

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Generals Warn Space, the Final Frontier, Is First Theater of 21St Century Combat

March 14, 2023
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Spaceplanes bristling with weaponry, satellites that capture “space architecture,” directed-energy lasers and electromagnetic shockwaves designed to instantly blind global communications, and missile-test debris fields menacing the congested and contested orbital paths that strap the planet. These are not highlights from an upcoming Sci-Fi Channel TV series but could be part of a History Channel documentary…

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