Russia Proposes Record Defense Spending as it Pursues Victory in the Ukraine War The Russian government wants to earmark 32.5% of its spending next year for defense, a record amount and up from a reported...
ROTC Scholarships Could Be Slashed This Decade as Army Deals with Glut of Officers The Army is eyeing a roughly $100 million cut to Reserve Officers' Training Corps scholarships through the rest of the decade...
Extra $12B for VA Medical Budget in Limbo After Exclusion from Short-Term Spending Bill Lawmakers did not include the requested VA funding in the continuing resolution -- and are so far not committing to including...
'Significant Consequences': Army Secretary Warns Congress over Short-Term Funding Wormuth emphasized that a planned three-month continuing resolution set to fund the Army starting Oct. 1 will have...
Veterans Benefits Safe After Senate Approves $3 Billion in Additional Funding Before Deadline The Senate approved the legislation to cover the shortfall in Department of Veterans Affairs funding for disability and...
Defense Spending Bills See Unusually Large Surge in Unrequested Adds by Congress About half the weapons-related projects are in the Senate Defense appropriations bill and half in the House bill, according...
Amid Struggle to Build Subs, Navy Gives Company Running Ads and Website a $1 Billion Contract The contract, which has options that allow it to pay out as much as $980 million, went to a company called BlueForge Alliance...
$12 Billion More for VA Medical Budget Urgently Needed, Department Says If Congress does not include extra funding for Department of Veterans Affairs medical services in an upcoming stopgap...
Pentagon Chief Says a 6-Month Temporary Budget Bill Will Have Devastating Effects on the Military Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said passage of a six-month temporary spending bill would have widespread and devastating...
VA Warns Congress that Benefits Payments Are at Risk Due to Projected $15 Billion Budget Shortfall The VA said it is working with the White House and Congress to address the budget shortfalls in a way that doesn't harm...
Marine Raiders Ordered to Stop Wearing Multicam Uniforms to Align Elite Unit with Broader Service The special operations Marines will abandon the pattern worn by units such as Army Special Forces on Jan. 1, a spokesman said...
Navy Confirms Just One More Chief, Officer Punished for Illicit Wi-Fi Network on Warship Between the investigation and Fields' update, the publicly acknowledged sum total of punishments meted out for the Wi-Fi...
Shaw Air Force Base Dining Halls Are Closed Until 2026. Relatives Worry Young Airmen Aren't Getting Healthy Meals. Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina has not had an operating dining hall for airmen in nearly a year and a half, leaving...
Air Force Uses B-2 Bomber for First Time in Combat Since 2017, Sending Message to Iran The bombers conducted airstrikes on five underground weapons facilities, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said, and the...
Investigation of SEALs Drowning Also Uncovers Allegations of Performance-Enhancing Drug Use, Secret Surgery The Navy investigation stressed that "the allegations raised in the complaint were not root causes" of the decision to...