Army Kills Laser-Guided Rocket, Cuts Bradley Buy in 'Night Court' Session U.S. Army budget officials have released the top 20 programs the service wants to cut to fund future modernization programs.
F-35s, Reaper Drones Would Be Cut in New Border Wall Funding Proposal Some of the programs targeted for reduction had been overfunded by Congress at levels above the military's original request.
It's Official: Troops Get Another Big Pay Raise in 2021 Budget Request It's the second-highest pay raise for troops since 2010.
Navy Plans to Cut Shipbuilding Budget Face Swift Pushback on Capitol Hill Lawmakers are hitting back against the Navy's plans to cut shipbuilding over the next several years.
Air Force Cancels 'Hacksaw' Hypersonic Weapons Program As the global race for hypersonic weapons intensifies, the U.S. just decided to abandon one of its prototype programs.
VA Ramps Up Mental Health Funding After Rash of Parking Lot Suicides The VA's budget request for fiscal 2021 totals $243.3 billion -- a dramatic 10% increase from 2020.
Army Halts Plans to Extend Training for Cavalry Scouts, Combat Engineers Army officials said today that only infantry and armor OSUTs will be funded as part of the Army's fiscal 2021 budget request.
Army Pours Cash into Long-Range Missile Development, New Infantry Rifles The $178 billion request is $4 billion less than last fiscal year's $182 billion request, according to Army documents.
Marines Plan to Cut Thousands of Personnel, Cull Fleets of MRAPs and AAVs The Marine Corps wants $46 billion in 2021, almost identical to last year's $45.9 billion request.
Air Force to Send More than 100 Planes to Boneyard as it Invests in Future Fighters The service plans to ditch more than 100 planes in its bomber, airlift, tanker and drone fleets in its 2021 budget request.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...