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Space Force Should Hire Commercial Tracking Services ASAP: 2021 NDAA Congressional authorizers approved some $10.4 billion in Space Force RTD&E, an almost $85 million bump from the budget request.

Dunlap On Sharing Secret Data & The F-35 WASHINGTON: Welcome to the sixth of our video stories drawn from our almost hour-long interview with Preston Dunlap, Chief Architect of the Air and Space Forces. From that position, Dunlap helps guide the complex and far-reaching work the Air and Space Forces are doing in All Domain Operations, on JADC2,and, most centrally, on the Advanced Battle…

NDAA: Conference Cuts New Army Tech, Pluses Up Old The cutting-edge IVAS targeting goggles took a $230 million hit, while the latest upgrade to the venerable CH-47 Chinook – which the Army doesn't actually want – got a $165 million boost.

UAE F-35 Sale 'Possible' Before Biden's Sworn In, Trump Official Says; US Sold $175B In Arms "I get asked if it's possible, absolutely it's possible," Heidi Grant, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, told reporters at the Pentagon Friday. But some in Congress are working to block the deal.

NDAA Adds 14 F-35s, OKs $9.1B; Fully Funds B-21 Authorizers want CAPE to assess costs and risks of the "aggressive and uncertain plan" Digital Century Series approach to acquire NGAD aircraft.

DES: Defense Enclave Services Will Be DISA's 'Crown Jewel' DES "is an incredibly important endeavor," said Danielle Metz, acting deputy CIO for information enterprise at the Defense Information Systems Agency. "It is one of the crown jewels."

SASC, HASC Brush Aside Trump Veto Threat; NDAA Heads To Vote President Trump goes after SASC Chairman and Hill ally Jim Inhofe in a tweet, setting up a fight over the defense bill in the waning days of his administration

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