DoD Health Care Beneficiaries Spared from Fee Increases in New Budget Request The Biden administration has requested a 5.3% increase in the military health system budget to tackle Tricare increases...
Coast Guard Gets a Pay Raise in Biden's First Budget Request The service would actually see a decrease in discretionary funding from fiscal 2021 spending.
VA Gets Another Massive Funding Increase in Biden's First Budget The budget calls for an 8.2% increase in discretionary spending and a nearly 11% rise in mandatory funding, including medical...
Air Force's 'Grey Wolf' Huey Replacement Helicopter Goes Unfunded in DoD Budget Request The service will delay asking lawmakers for funding for the helicopter.
Pentagon Eyes New Bombs for War With China, Not ISIS Despite the service shifting more resources toward the ARRW program last year, the missile failed its first flight test a few...
Climate Change, Extremism Among Military Threats Targeted in DoD Budget Request The Biden administration is addressing extremism in the ranks, as well as climate change, in its first proposed Defense...
Marine Corps Invests in Drone Truck-Based Ship-Killer Missile as it Ditches Some MRAPs The White House budget request for fiscal 2022 totals $47.86 billion for the Marine Corps, up from $45.1 billion last year.
Navy Will Get Air Force F-16 Fighter Jets to Fill Super Hornet Gap The U.S. Navy is preparing to receive F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter jets from the Air Force as it moves to rid its inventory...
Air Force Will See Substantial Cuts to Aircraft Fleets in Biden's First Budget The U.S. Air Force wants to ditch more than 200 planes across its fighter, tanker, mobility, attack and drone fleets.
Navy Speeds Up Ship Retirements as It Ramps Up Investment in New Platforms While the Navy's most recent plan included plans to decommission 48 active ships by 2026, the new budget request speeds up...
Trump Is Renaming 7 Army Installations. Here Are the Stories Behind the Names Being Scrubbed. President Donald Trump's announcement is the administration's latest move in its concerted effort to shift the people and...
Veteran Who Fired at Gunman and Inadvertently Killed Utah Protester Was a Safety Volunteer, Organizers Say Police said that the permit for the protest did not specify that there would be armed security, and that the role and...
Air Force Lowered Annual Recruiting Goal Due to Budget Woes, But Still on Track to Hit Target This Month The Air Force had to reduce its target recruiting goal by several thousand airmen due to ongoing congressional budget delays...
‘They’re Taking Shirly’: An Army Sergeant Thought His Family Was Safe. Then, ICE Deported His Wife. For tens of thousands of U.S. service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from...
Air Force's Bunker-Buster Bomb Could Take Out Iran Nuclear Facility, But Israel Hints at Other Options The Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the centrifuges deep...