Lawmakers Align on 3.1% Pay Raise, Efforts to Slow Cuts to Military Medical Billets The draft House defense authorization bill also contains health and child care provisions.
Senators Nearly Triple Army Request for Stryker Cannons Army budget officials initially requested $144.4 million for the Stryker "MOD" effort in the base budget.
New Space Force Details Emerge in Senate Spending Plan Lawmakers have decided to keep the Space Force's top uniformed leader from joining the Joint Chiefs for a year.
Senators Seek to Strengthen Oversight of Military Housing Firms The Senate Armed Services Committee wants troops to have more recourse in dealing with their landlords.
Senate Panel Green-Lights More Money for Army Helos, New Auto Rifle The SASAC approved defense spending bill provides dollars for Army helicopters and a weapon to replace the M249.
Senate Panel Approves $750 Billion Defense Policy Bill The Senate Armed Services Committee overwhelmingly supported a proposed 3.1% military pay raise.
Defense Spending Bill Includes 3.1% Military Pay Raise, Child Care Facilities Funding A $690.2 billion fiscal 2020 defense funding bill also contains money for new aircraft and ships.
Military Spouses Helped Write Last Year's National Defense Bill "Spouses are passed over for jobs because employers worry they will move. For others, the issue is affordable child care."
Lawmakers Question Huge Increase in Pentagon's 'War Budget' for Fiscal 2020 Lawmakers charged that the proposed huge increase in Overseas Contingency Operations funding is a budgetary "gimmick."
Air Force Can't Start Storm Repair Projects at Tyndall Due to Funding Gap Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson on Tuesday said the service has been forced to postpone rebuilding efforts.
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...
