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Don’t Retire U-2, Again! Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Schiff Urge Air Force To Postpone
WASHINGTON: Either Lockheed Martin’s legendary U-2 spy plane does things that Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk drone can’t, or it doesn’t. If the U-2 doesn’t, then, the Air Force argues, it should be...
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BCA Will Hamstring Trump Or Clinton: Only Congress Can Fix It
WASHINGTON: Whoever wins the White House in November will still be hobbled by the spending limits in the Budget Control Act, warned fiscal expert Todd Harrison. Whether BCA goes away, he said, depends...
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Memos, Vetos, Spending And Those Elections
WASHINGTON: Congress has returned after a week of uncommonly beautiful weather for Washington in late August. But, with all the other miseries that Congress has wrought upon the American people in the...
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Congress, Don’t Wait On Trump To Boost Defense Budget
Congress is setting the defense budget on autopilot and high-tailing it out of town, leaving a lot of unfinished business behind. While President Obama is set to sign the defense policy bill for 2017...
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Mattis Says Prez-Elect Supports F-35 After Trump Sort Of Bangs F-35 Again
UPDATED: Mattis Says: Trump “Has In No Way Shown A Lack Of Support For The F-35 Program” WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump said more than 144 characters about the F-35 program today at his first...
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RUMINT: Van Hipp Back For Army Sec; Rob Blair Comptroller; Stackley For ATL
WASHINGTON: Musical chairs times, dear readers. The rumor mill — we can’t call it anything else given how uncertain the Trump administration’s nomination process has been — has a number of top Pentagon...
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Trump Picks Technocrats, Not Billionaires, For Top Pentagon Posts
WASHINGTON: President Trump will nominate Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan for Deputy Defense Secretary, one of six key Pentagon appointments announced today. All six have extensive service in...
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Marine Aviation Says He’d Like 13 More F-35Bs; Lockheed PM Speaks On Timing,...
PARIS AIR SHOW: On his way out the door, the head of Marine aviation, Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, told reporters he really, really wants more F-35Bs for the Marines as soon as possible. The current top goal is...
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House Appropriators Give SecDef Blank Check For $28.6B
WASHINGTON: In a sign of how strange the budget process has become, the House Appropriations Committee has approved a defense spending bill that basically gives Secretary Jim Mattis a $28.6 billion...
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America’s Air Superiority Crisis
The Air Force already has a big hole in its capabilities for the future: it needs what it is calling Penetrating Counter Air, a very fast, long-range, sensor-loaded and furiously lethal aircraft. But...
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House Will Pass All Approps Bills This Week: Rep. Granger
ARLINGTON: House leadership wants to pass all the outstanding spending bills by Sunday, defense appropriations chairwoman Kay Granger said this afternoon. “We’re going to do… all the rest of them this...
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BCA Will Hamstring Trump Or Clinton: Only Congress Can Fix It
WASHINGTON: Whoever wins the White House in November will still be hobbled by the spending limits in the Budget Control Act, warned fiscal expert Todd Harrison. Whether BCA goes away, he said, depends...
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Memos, Vetos, Spending And Those Elections
WASHINGTON: Congress has returned after a week of uncommonly beautiful weather for Washington in late August. But, with all the other miseries that Congress has wrought upon the American people in the...
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Congress, Don’t Wait On Trump To Boost Defense Budget
Congress is setting the defense budget on autopilot and high-tailing it out of town, leaving a lot of unfinished business behind. While President Obama is set to sign the defense policy bill for 2017...
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Mattis Says Prez-Elect Supports F-35 After Trump Sort Of Bangs F-35 Again
UPDATED: Mattis Says: Trump “Has In No Way Shown A Lack Of Support For The F-35 Program” WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump said more than 144 characters about the F-35 program today at his first...
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RUMINT: Van Hipp Back For Army Sec; Rob Blair Comptroller; Stackley For ATL
WASHINGTON: Musical chairs times, dear readers. The rumor mill — we can’t call it anything else given how uncertain the Trump administration’s nomination process has been — has a number of top Pentagon...
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Trump Picks Technocrats, Not Billionaires, For Top Pentagon Posts
WASHINGTON: President Trump will nominate Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan for Deputy Defense Secretary, one of six key Pentagon appointments announced today. All six have extensive service in...
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Marine Aviation Says He’d Like 13 More F-35Bs; Lockheed PM Speaks On Timing,...
PARIS AIR SHOW: On his way out the door, the head of Marine aviation, Lt. Gen. Jon Davis, told reporters he really, really wants more F-35Bs for the Marines as soon as possible. The current top goal is...
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House Appropriators Give SecDef Blank Check For $28.6B
WASHINGTON: In a sign of how strange the budget process has become, the House Appropriations Committee has approved a defense spending bill that basically gives Secretary Jim Mattis a $28.6 billion...
View ArticleClik here to view.
America’s Air Superiority Crisis
The Air Force already has a big hole in its capabilities for the future: it needs what it is calling Penetrating Counter Air, a very fast, long-range, sensor-loaded and furiously lethal aircraft. But...
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