The following is the Jan. 19, 2018 memo: Guidance for Continuation of Operations During a Lapse of Appropriations issued by Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan on Friday. Read More
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Report: Current Budget Fight Hints at Long-Term Battle Between Pentagon and Budget Hawks
A United States Marine Corps helicopter is seen flying through this scene of the full Moon and the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 from Arlington National Cemetery. NASA PHOTO
WASHINGTON, D.C. — While the Fiscal Year 2018 Department of Defense budget is still being hammered out on Capitol Hill, a more significant fight for the long-term vision of military spending is occurring behind the scenes, pitting West Wing number crunchers against Pentagon leaders, according to a new analysis on Pentagon spending.
Report to Congress on Pentagon End of Year Spending
The following is the Nov. 17, 2017 Congressional Research Service report, End-Year DOD Contract Spending. Read More
Document: SECDEF Mattis Pentagon Memo on Ethics
The following is an Aug. 4, 2017 memo from Secretary of Defense James Mattis on ethics addressed to all Department of Defense employees. Read More
Document: Pentagon Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat Report
The following is the June 26, 2017 Pentagon report Ballistic and Cruise Missile Threat Report from the Defense Intelligence Ballistic Missile Analysis Committee. Read More
Report to Congress on Defining U.S. MIlitary Readiness
The following is the June 14, 2017 Congressional Research Service Report, Defining Readiness: Background and Issues for Congress. Read More
McCain: Where’s the Strategy? Mattis: ‘We’re Working It’
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis shakes hands with Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, before hearing on the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Budget Request from the Department of Defense in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington D.C., June 13, 2017. DoD Photo
Spearheaded by Chairman Sen. John McCain, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee pressed the Pentagon’s top leadership why it had yet to produce a new national security strategy to inform the budget six months into the Trump administration. Read More
Congress Presses SECDEF Mattis on U.S. Navy Path to 355 Ships
Secretary of Defense James Mattis
Seapower leaders on the House Armed Services Committee pressed Pentagon leaders Monday night to explain why the president’s 2018 budget request does not put the Navy on a path to have a fleet of 355 ships. Read More
Pentagon Report to Congress on Chinese Military Development
The following is the Pentagon’s annual report to Congress, Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China 2016. The report was released on June 6, 2017. Read More
Document: Report to Congress on Sending Additional U.S. Troops to Afghanistan
The following is the May 19, 2017 Congressional Research Service report, Additional Troops for Afghanistan? Considerations for Congress. Read More
