Why the budget deal is good news for defense — with one key exception
AEI’s Elaine McCusker, former Pentagon comptroller, argues the Biden-McCarthy compromise is a positive sign, but there’s work to be done.
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As GOP frustration mounts, officials eye ways to get weapons to Taiwan ‘more quickly’
“We agree that there is urgency to make sure that Taiwan is prepared as part of deterrence to keep China from moving forward,” said State Department’s Assistant Secretary Bureau of Political-Military Affairs Jessica Lewis.
Gilday: Need More Governance, Trust Building With AI
The Navy’s top officer recently said he thinks the U.S. needs more regulation in deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help build trust and manage risk in the new technologies. “So […]
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U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gets Biden Nod to Become Next Chairman of Joint Chiefs
President Biden on May 25 announced his pick to become the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS)–U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown, a former […]
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Denmark, Netherlands to lead F-16 training coalition for Ukrainian pilots: Austin
“F-16s clearly have a role and Ukraine deserves a capable Air Force. It’s going to take a considerable length of time to build up an Air Force that’s the size and scope and scale that’ll be necessary,” said Chairman of the Joint Chief…
Contractors Asking About Prompt Payment Act, As Default Specter Looms
Unlike a federal government shutdown, a default would not halt fiscal 2023 appropriations, and large defense contractors’ cash reserves could help tide those companies over, yet downstream effects of a […]
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Mateship’s not enough: ASPI urges better US understanding of Aussie forces
“At the senior levels, there are so many two- and three-star Australians that knew two- and three- and four-star Americans. They would call each other or VTC each other, and nobody knew,” one interviewee said. “We didn’t know, and we …
CQ Brown is Biden’s pick for next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs – here’s how he might approach the role
The former fighter pilot and current chief of staff of the Air Force is expected to be a champion for the service’s modernization strategy, as well as an advocate for making the armed services more inclusive.
CENTCOM AI/ML Wish List Points to Future Predictive Goals for Project Maven
U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) fiscal 2024 wish list points to what the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has said is a primary longer term goal of artificial intelligence (AI)–the prediction […]
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Over $85M in F-35 parts are unaccounted for, GAO says — and that number could be much larger
Because “the F35 JPO does not have an independent record of the global spares pool, and the values of the lost spare parts are not the fully burdened cost, the $85 million of identified losses by [the subcontractor] may not accurately represent t…