White House requests $842 billion to fund Pentagon in 2024
That request to Congress includes $6 billion to support Ukraine, NATO, and other European partner states, and $9.1 billion for DoD’s Pacific Deterrence Initiative.
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Expansion of Government Data Rights Possible in F-35 Performance-Based Logistics Contract
The possibility of a five-year Pentagon Performance-Based Logistics (PBL) contract award this year to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for sustainment of the company’s F-35 fighter is giving DoD leverage to gain access to more F-35 technical data, a top U.S…
Flight Acceptance Testing of F-35 Resumes in Fort Worth
Lockheed Martin [LMT] said on March 6 that it has resumed flight acceptance testing in Fort Worth, Texas of the company’s F-35 fighter. “We resumed F-35 production flight operations today following an F135 engine mitigation action,” t…
Pentagon Issues New Transgender Policies for Military Personnel
Legal Insurrection: Pentagon Burdens Warfighting Commanders with New Transgender Policies for Military Personnel New policies expand transgender procedures to the service academies, allow gender transitions while on-duty, and mandate group showe…
Ukraine Has Sought Up To 128 U.S. Fighter Jets But Not A Pressing Need, DoD Official Says
Ukraine has asked for upward of 128 U.S.-made 4th generation fighter aircraft, but these are not among the top three priorities that country needs in its war against Russia and the costs of these systems have to be weighed against theses nearer term ne…
Raytheon’s Pratt & Whitney Holds Supplier Day on Capitol Hill for Proposed F135 Engine Core Upgrade
Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] Pratt & Whitney held a supplier day Feb. 28 on Capitol Hill for the company’s proposed F135 Engine Core Upgrade (ECU) for the Lockheed Martin [LMT] F-35 fighter–an event attended by more than 80 suppli…
No evidence U.S. aid to Ukraine has been lost to alleged corruption, officials say
House Republicans are launching probes into the billions of dollars sent to Ukraine during Russia’s year-long invasion, with some arguing aid should be stopped entirely.
DoD Fiscal 2024 Budget Likely to Address Shoring Up Industrial Capacity to Respond to Surge Demands
One of the central thrusts of the upcoming DoD fiscal 2024 budget is likely to be building industrial capacity to satisfy surge demands for materiel in response to requests from allies, such as Ukraine, and to U.S. deterrence and conflict needs. This m…
Federal Workers Union Opposes Cutting Civilian Jobs At The Pentagon
Roll Call: Federal workers oppose proposed Pentagon civilian workforce cut Republican proposal would trim defense workforce through attrition The federal workers union came out swinging Thursday against a Republican proposal to reduce the si…
Healthy Defense Industrial Base, Supply Chain Part Of Biden’s Conventional Arms Transfer Policy
President Biden last week issued new guidance for U.S. weapons transfers and sales to allies and partners, highlighting that the strength of the U.S. defense industrial base and related supply chain is an important objective of the policy in furthering…