Senate Armed Services Committee

Proposed 2% federal pay raise gets support in 2025 defense authorization bill

The Senate committee’s version of the 2025 NDAA, advanced last week, supported a 2% federal pay raise for civilian feds and a 4.5% raise for military…

Pay

Military families request end to Senate hold on DoD nominations

Defense

Air Force to pause bonuses and PCS moves

Air Force

What Congress wants Defense to look like in 2024 takes shape

Defense

House, Senate committees approve 2024 NDAA, including 5.2% pay raise

Defense News

Defense officials say a year-long continuing resolution would be ‘The Bad Place’

Defense

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is interviewed about the Relay, an electric autonomous vehicle, in Fairfax, Va., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. The future of transportation arrived in northern Virginia, looking like a big blue toaster on wheels that can seat six and drive itself through the region’s notorious traffic. State and local officials debuted the Relay system Thursday, an all-electric, autonomous vehicle that will provide free shuttle rides back and forth from the Dunn Loring Metrorail stop to the bustling Mosaic District in Fairfax County, Va. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Language to block future Schedule F absent from compromise version of NDAA

Workforce

House and Senate Armed Services Committee leaders reach an agreement on NDAA

Federal Newscast

Several military branches poised to miss recruitment targets for fiscal 2022

Defense

FILE - The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. The Air Force has filed criminal charges against an airman in connection with an April explosion that injured U.S. troops at a base in eastern Syria. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

A plan emerges to lower the prices on military spare parts

Contracts/Awards

U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Rhyan Acey performs maintenance on the AN/TSQ-180 Milstar Communications Vehicle July 30, 2021, at the 233rd Space Group, Greeley Air National Guard Station, Greeley, Colorado. The 233rd Space Group was the first National Guard unit to assume a U.S. Space Command mission. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Amanda Geiger)

Space National Guard would have low initial price tag

Space Operations

Three things to watch in the House 2023 NDAA

The House Armed Services Committee is largely sticking with the Biden vision for the Defense Department next year, however, the 2023 Defense authorization…

Congress

Early morning summer sunrise as seen from the Lincoln Memorial while looking toward the Washington Monument in Washington, DC.

Defense funding topline up in the air for 2023 after committees release bills

The House is sticking closely to the Biden budget and to appropriators but the Senate Armed Services Committee is feeling bolder in what it is approving…

Congress

An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 34th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron departs after conducting an aerial refueling.

Air Force thinking of new ways to handle ‘black swan’ events in acquisition

Air Force

The Air Force is exploring multiple options to ensure the service gets the products it wants and helps industry where it is struggling along the way.
The war in Ukraine, supply chain shortages, COVID and inflation are all throwing a wrench in pricing and contracting.