The Department of Defense intends to pump $1.75 billion into Artificial Intelligence efforts over six years.
The security clearance process has the highest backlog in history. Industry trade groups are saying that’s not only bad for business—it’s a national security emergency.
The president argues that building a wall is a national security issue. That still doesn’t mean he can use unappropriated defense dollars to pay for it.
Since the bulk of the jobs for people with security clearances are in the national defense arena, how much money the DOD is getting and how it plans to spend it should be a hot topic
The White House Office of Management and Budget released the president’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2019 (which begins on October 1, 2018) on Monday.
Any Congressman who says he cares about readiness but contributes to the current impasse isn’t really all that concerned about readiness, I’m afraid.
Senators and congressmen will now formally work on what their staffs have been working on for months: crafting a compromise between two bills with similar but still different views on how DoD should spend its money next year.
A Senate amendment proposed increasing non-defense discretionary spending “dollar for dollar” with defense spending .