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Pentagon’s 2025 budget boosts personnel budget, cuts end strength

DoD plans to cut its active end strength by 7,800 service members, but grow its reserve forces in 2025, according to the 2025 budget request.

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Is spending on American defense too much or perhaps not enough on the right things

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FILE - The U.S. Capitol building is seen before sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March. 21, 2022. With an urgent funding request stuck in Congress, the Health Resources and Services Administration says it can no longer cover medical bills for COVID tests and treatments for uninsured people and will stop taking claims at midnight Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

The worsening Ukraine situation causes Congress to reexamine the defense budget

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(Erin Scott/The New York Times via AP, Pool)Chairman Sen. Gary Peters., D-Mich., speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs & Senate Rules and Administration joint hearing on Capitol Hill, Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, to examine the January 6th attack on the Capitol. (Erin Scott/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Senators want to eliminate any conflicts of interest with government contractors

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Defense innovation bumps up against a Cold War budget system

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WikipediaArnold Punaro

The military has a hard time doing its job when Congress doesn’t do its job

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More DoD contracting dollars are going to shrinking pool of small businesses

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Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Steny Hoyer

House leadership wants to get on with a final appropriation agreement for fiscal 2022

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While the Pentagon is doing more business with small companies, the list of candidates is shrinking

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Defense Department has spent more of its contracting budget on small businesses in recent years, but those dollars are…

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Delta variant has forced some agencies to adjust return-to-work plans

In today’s Federal Newscast, the delta variant of COVID-19 is pushing back return-to-work timelines for some federal employees.

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DoD spending data tells us how serious the Pentagon is about a shift to great power competition

A new analysis of contracting data by the Center for Strategic and International Studies shows some glimmers of a shift in spending priorities starting in 2019.

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