Rob Wittman, who is currently the top Republican on the HASC’s seapower and projection forces subcommittee, is seeking the chair of HASC’s tactical air and land forces subcommittee next year.
By Valerie Insinna and Aaron MehtaA new approach to speed, scale and efficiency for the industrial base
Radars, EW, EO/IR, space imagery, and microelectronics are brought under one roof for a streamlined approach to common people and factories.
Congress has long been irritated by the Navy’s pace for sealift recap. One lawmaker says he’s ready to shake things up.
By Justin Katz
Lawmakers want to mandate the maintenance and modernization plan’s annual delivery.
By Justin Katz
Previous laws requiring certain ship counts have struggled to be anything more than symbolic.
By Justin Katz
The dry docks will aim to relieve submarine maintenance delays and deferrals through 2040.
By Justin Katz
The Navy’s long range shipbuilding plan has been officially released. Lawmakers are not impressed.
By Justin Katz
Enterprise-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.
The ship, LHA-9, had already been authorized, so its inclusion as new in the president’s budget request attracted immediate attention from lawmakers following the budget’s rollout.
By Justin Katz
The congressmen say the problems SIOP is facing stem from public support, awareness and ‘muscle memory’ erosion in industry.
By Justin Katz
The bill to add $25 billion, mostly for Navy shipyards, faces long odds in the Senate this week, but it reflects lawmakers’ impatience with the Pentagon’s proposals.
By Justin Katz
The Navy has identified 36 individuals with some level of culpability for the loss of a $3.5 billion warship.
By Justin Katz
So far, Boeing has lost $5 billion on the low risk system, is years behind schedule and doesn’t seem to have a very good handle on basic manufacturing principles such as ensuring tools, scrap metal and other debris (FOD) are not left behind in the aircraft.
By Colin Clark
“There’s a lot of retrofit that will have to take place,” Gen. Stephen Lyons said about the replacement of the tanker’s faulty boom camera.
By Theresa Hitchens
“If we get into a conflict with China, this is not going to be like a World War II conflict where we have massive elements of the industrial base that can quickly convert to manufacturing the necessities for war…that’s just not going to happen,” Rep. Rob Wittman says.
By Paul McLeary
“Russia is watching us. China is watching us. Our allies are watching us — and they all want to see how seriously America is taking security in this destabilized world,” writes Rep. Rob Wittman in a new op-ed.
By Rep. Rob Wittman