The Senate Armed Services Committee has released an $847 billion defense policy bill that includes a $13.8 billion increase in procurement funds over the Pentagon’s budget request, Breaking Defense reported Monday. SASC’s
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The Senate Armed Services Committee voted 23-3 Thursday to move the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act to the Senate floor for consideration. The NDAA would authorize $817.3 billion in FY
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Reps. Adam Smith, D-Wash; and Mike Rogers, R-Ala.; with Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I.; and Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., have announced their selections of members for the Afghanistan War Commission. The Fiscal Year 2022
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A group of senators introduced a bill that would discourage foreign cryptocurrency firms from engaging with sanctioned Russian elites to prevent the latter from evading international sanctions using digital assets. The Digital
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Leaders of House and Senate Armed Services Committees have named eight government, industry and academic experts to a 12-member commission that will review the U.S. strategic posture and nuclear weapons policy and
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A group of 33 senators called on President Biden to include election security grants worth five billion dollars in the administration’s fiscal year 2023 budget request. The Election Assistance Commission would distribute
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Sens. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., have jointly issued a letter that urges the Securities and Exchange Commission to boost cybersecurity transparency for investors. The senators recommend the commission require
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Leaders of House and Senate Armed Services Committees have appointed former Department of Defense officials to a 14-member commission tasked with evaluating the effectiveness of DOD’s planning, programming, budgeting and execution process.
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John Plumb, principal director and chief of government relations at the Aerospace Corporation, has been nominated to serve as the assistant secretary of defense for space policy, the Senate Armed Services Committee
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A substitute amendment proposed by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., to the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) did not include a language calling for updates to the Federal
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