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US DoD Anti-Access/Area Denial Challenges Are A Funding Priority
Anti-access/area denial (AA/AD) challenges require continued technology investment. Potential adversaries are expected to exploit the current U.S. dependence on satellites, unmanned vehicles, computer systems, and the global positioning system. Frost & Sullivan research finds that the AA/AD programs are budgeted for $57.47 billion in 2013 and estimates this to reach $61.00 billion in 2017. Budget [...]
DOD prepares for potential sequestration
The Office of Management and Budget has instructed the Department of Defense to pursue internal planning to meet required budget cuts if sequestration goes into effect Jan. 3. “We are at the very start of this process,” said Dr. George Little, acting assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, during a Pentagon press availability here, [...]
Finnish Defence Forces Face Funding Shortage
Chief of Finland’s Defence Forces, Vice Admiral Juha Rannikko, has called for a review of funding for Finland’s basic defence duties and programs before the end of the decade. A reduction in budgetary allocations is threatening the ability of the country’s defence forces to fulfil their duties says defence chief Juha Rannikko. Speaking during Thursday’s [...]
Panetta, Barak Discuss Iron Dome Success, Israeli Defenses
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak praised the performance of the Iron Dome air defense system during a press conference here today. Panetta said the Iron Dome system, which was developed by the Israelis and funded in large part by the United States, prevented war following hundreds of recent Palestinian [...]
US Boosts Funding for Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’ Defense System
The United States has fulfilled Israel’s request for another $70 million to pay for Iron Dome, a missile defense system aimed at protecting Israelis from rockets fired by militants in the Gaza Strip. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak came to the Pentagon Thursday, the latest of several visits in recent months to ask for additional [...]
Annual Aviation Inventory and Funding Plan
Section 231a of title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 1069 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, Public Law 112-81, requires the Secretary of Defense to submit an annual, long-term aviation plan for fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft, to include unmanned systems, for all Services and for combatant commanders that [...]
Tanker Task Force Funding to Decrease in Fiscal 2011
BANGOR, Maine: Demand for tanker airlift support is not expected to slow down in the near future, but the money to fund Guard and Reserve man-days for the mission will be decreased for fiscal 2011, Air Force officials said on Nov. 4. Gen. Raymond E. Johns, Jr., the commander of Air Mobility Command at Scott [...]
Former British Army Chief Blasts Blair, Brown for Inadequate War Funding
LONDON: The former head of the British army has strongly criticized former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for letting British troops down in Iraq and Afghanistan by not adequately funding the two conflict efforts. Retired General Richard Dannatt makes the claim in his new book. While Tony Blair is out promoting his new [...]
Congress Approves Supplemental War-Funding Bill
WASHINGTON: The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday approved passage of the Defense Department’s supplemental war-funding bill, most of which will be used to pay for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. Video President Barack Obama and Pentagon officials said passage of the nearly $59 billion supplemental was critical for supporting overseas-deployed troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]
