Most observers had expected an increase in the Navy’s shipbuilding accounts with this budget, especially after the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, said that, even as an Army general, he would support budget increases for the Navy and Air Force in light of the Chinese threat. But this budget decommissions 12 ships and buys relatively few replacements.
By Mark CancianEnterprise-wide training: the Army’s $3.5B program for multi-service combat readiness
The competition for Warfighter Training and Readiness Solutions will bring together training networks, combat training centers and live ranges across the DoD enterprise.
President Biden’s first defense budget “biases the future, slightly,” over the present, but Gen. Mark Milley says he doesn’t see any one service taking precedence over another in the divvying up of money.
By Paul McLeary The JROC now will issue “strategic directives” to the services prescribing how they craft buying plans to substantiate the emerging Joint Warfighting Concept, Brig. Gen. Rob Parker, Joint Staff J6 deputy director, says.
By Theresa Hitchens
Pending the Deputy Secretary’s approval, the Joint All Domain Command & Control strategy could receive Secretary Austin’s okay within “weeks,” said Brig. Gen. Rob Parker.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Recent gains in readiness and modernization are fragile, Army leaders warned, and budget cuts would undermine the service’s ability to help the Joint Force.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The first real-world effort “to stress test our ideas” for implementing JADC2 is coming up within the next two to three months, J6 Director Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall says.
By Theresa Hitchens
The ability to move vast amounts of data between far-flung units will be critical as the Pentagon continues to disperse ground, air, and sea assets further afield, untethered from large, stationary bases.
By Paul McLeary
Modernizing our supply chain is a national security imperative
Closing supply chain gaps in innovating technology will reposition the industrial base to be a strategic source of value.
Former CSAF Gen. David Goldfein, who like many fighter pilots isn’t a big guy, was passed over as CJCS because he didn’t “look macho enough for Trump,” said one former Pentagon insider.
By Theresa Hitchens
Part of a special Breaking Defense reference series profiling key defense decision-makers in the new administration and Congress.
By Catherine Macaulay
Rep. Joe Courtney’s comments on on the heels of other lawmakers and military officials pushing for the Navy to get a larger slice of the 2022 defense budget
By Paul McLeary
The emerging Indo-Pacific Warfighting Concept has been drafted, but still has “a ways to go as far as working through the Department of Defense,” says INDOPACOM’s head of requirements, George Ka’iliwai.
By Theresa Hitchens INDOPACOM’s Brig. Gen. Jacqueline Brown said “policy is a significant concern…If we build a network, if we build these systems but they’re not releasable to our mission partners, we’re going to lose.”
By Paul McLeary
The Pentagon is at an “inflection point” in terms of how to split the military budget between the services, Rep. Joe Courtney said, a growing recognition that the budget calculus is about to change.
By Paul McLeary
The Navy is “in a good place,” CNO Adm. Mike Gilday says, “as we present that analysis to senior decision makers, and we really re-litigate, if you will, the ‘22 budget submit — which was very heavily in the Navy’s favor with respect to shipbuilding.”
By Paul McLeary
