The following is the May 30, 2023, Government Accountability Office report, F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: More Actions Needed to Explain Cost Growth and Support Engine Modernization Decision. Read More
Category Archives: U.S. Air Force
Report to Congress on Multiyear Procurement and Block Buy Contracting in Defense Acquisition
The following is a May 22, 2023, Congressional Research Service report, Multiyear Procurement (MYP) and Block Buy Contracting in Defense Acquisition: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
Defense Department Leadership Face Chart
The following is the Defense Department organizational face chart of top leadership as of March 6, 2023. Read More
Biden Taps Air Force Gen. CQ Brown As Next Chairman of Joint Chiefs
Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown responds to a question, May 7, 2020 on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to consider his nomination to be the next Air Force chief of staff. US Air Force Photo
President Joe Biden announced Thursday his intent to nominate Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Read More
Report to Congress on Great Power Competition
The following is the May 16, 2023 report, Renewed Great Power Competition: Implications for Defense— Issues for Congress. Read More
Lawmakers Press HASC to Approve Research Into Psychedelic Drugs for PTSD Treatment
U.S. Capitol on Dec. 29, 2022. USNI News Photo
Congressional members petitioned the House Armed Services Committee to research psychedelic drugs to treat post-traumatic stress during the panel’s annual member day ahead of the Fiscal Year 2024 defense policy bill markup. Read More
Coast Guard Suspends Search for 3 Missing After Navy Contracted Learjet Crash
Phoenix Air Learjet 35 approaching Naval Air Station North Island in 2009. Photo via Wikipedia
The Coast Guard suspended its search for three people who were aboard a Phoenix Air Learjet that crashed near San Clemente Island, Calif., the service announced Thursday. Read More
Report to Congress on Possible F-16 Fighter Sale to Turkey
The following is the May 9, 2023, Congressional Research Service report, Turkey (Türkiye): Possible U.S. Sale of F-16 Aircraft. Read More
Pentagon Starts Work to Build Ballistic Missile Defense Capability in Guam
On Nov. 16, U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Navy sailors aboard USS John Finn (DDG-113), an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System-equipped destroyer, fired a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA guided missile that successfully intercepted and destroyed a mock Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) during a flight test demonstration in the broad ocean area northeast of Hawaii in November 2020. MDA photo.
The Pentagon is taking the first steps to provide Guam with a persistent, 360-degree missile defense system against Chinese and North Korean attack, Missile Defense Agency director Vice Adm. Jon Hill told a Senate panel Tuesday. Read More
SECDEF Austin: Tuberville’s ‘Unprecedented’ Hold on Pentagon Nominees Creates ‘Perilous Precedent’
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley address the media during a press conference in April. DoD Photo
An Alabama senator’s hold on all Department of Defense civilian and military nominations is “unprecedented in its scale and scope” and “a clear risk to U.S. military readiness,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin wrote in a Friday letter to Congress, obtained by USNI News. Read More
