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NDAA pumps the breaks on programs to track moving targets Until a program-by-program review is provided by the Defense Department, the armed services committees would limit spending on each one to no more than than 75 percent of its planned annual budget.

Congress approves retirement of 160+ Air Force planes – with one notable exception The A-10 lives, it BRRTs, it lives again!

Pacific Deterrence Initiative gets $2.1 billion boost in final NDAA Congress rebuked the Pentagon for "improperly focused" budget request for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative.

Navy stands up fire safety office at NAVSEA The new NAVSEA office is being established in response to an estimated $6 billion spent in recent years to repair or replace fire-damaged vessels.

Space Force launches experimental sats to detect nukes, test laser communications Included among the STP-3 mission's payloads is NASA's Laser Communication Relay Demonstration (LCRD) aimed at enabling higher speed communications across the vast region of space between the Earth and Mars.

The Future Fight demands situational understanding across domains [Sponsored] In this brief Zoomcast with Ross Niebergall, vice president and chief technology officer for L3Harris, we discuss how JADC2 is evolving.

What would it take to defend Ukraine? Potentially, billions of dollars. Mark Cancian of CSIS takes a look at two strategies for US military deployment to deter Russia – and how realistic they may be.

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