updated Wed. January 10, 2024
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The Sun Herald
April 1, 2018
Late last year, President Trump signed the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act into law which included a change in United States policy, spearheaded by Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker and Virginia Congressman Rob Wittman, calling for a Navy battle force of 355-ships. This policy, knownÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
April 1, 2018
... systems to bolster the Avengers' deterrence, while James Rhodes can be deployed to Capitol Hill to push for increases in acquisitions and procurement spending allotments for the Avengers in the next National Defense Authorization Act — perhaps earning his “War Machine” sobriquet more accurately.
DefenseNews.com
March 30, 2018
However, the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization bill prohibited the Air Force from creating the A11, with the document slamming the A11 plan as “a hastily-developed half-measure instituted by the Air Force, which at best only added a box on the organizational chart.” Instead, Thompson will beÃâà...
Federal Times
March 30, 2018
Now, Congress has weighed in with a directive for the Department of Defense to begin capturing common information on PALT to facilitate identifying the root causes of PALT and ultimately reducing the time for awards. Section 886 of the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act, signed by theÃâà...
GovExec.com
March 30, 2018
The massive National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2018 contained language requiring the Pentagon to provide more detail on its spending plans for $144 billion in services contracts. But in the Trump administration's fiscal 2019 budget released in February, the document that provides the mostÃâà...
Department of Defense
March 29, 2018
With the reorganization aimed at simplifying business, which was mandated by Congress in the fiscal year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act, research and engineering will drive innovation and accelerate the advancement of U.S. warfighting capability, while acquisition and sustainment will deliverÃâà...
Government Accountability Office
March 29, 2018
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 amended existing requirements for DOD to annually collect data on contracted services and to compile and review an inventory of the functions performed by contractor personnel. The Act also contained a provision for GAO to report on the statusÃâà...
The Hill
March 29, 2018
The letter was released Thursday in conjunction with a schedule for the Armed Services Committee's markup of the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA authorizes funding for the Department of Defense and all of its activities and frequently touches on hot-button issues.
USNI News
March 21, 2018
Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said previous defense authorization bills and the FY18 appropriations bill awaiting congressional approval has given the services more acquisition authority and responsibility, now the Defense Department “and the services have to deliver results.” The additional defense fundingÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 21, 2018
Stefanik said she will look to add the legislation into the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act, the annual bill that sets defense policy. The nascent artificial intelligence tech is already being used in automated robots, self-driving cars, object recognition in photos and videos, and prediction models,Ãâà...
Defense One
March 21, 2018
First, that the source of the bureaucracy is largely the U.S. Congress, which annually passes a National Defense Authorization Act that almost always increases bureaucracy by adding requirements that have to be implemented through regulations. Second, it is important to realize that bureaucracy is notÃâà...
The Hill
March 21, 2018
The head of U.S. Strategic Command on Tuesday told lawmakers that now is not the “right” time to create a separate military space branch. “I think that someday we'll have a space corps or 'Space Force' in this country. But I don't think the time is right for that right now,” Gen. John Hyten told the SenateÃâà...
Roll Call
March 21, 2018
They could amend Arms Control Export Act or the licensing of defense services or the National Defense Authorization Act.” [Trump Touts Putin Get-Together as Senators Warn of Electoral Threat]. The White House and Pentagon joined McConnell in opposing the resolution, pushed by Utah RepublicanÃâà...
Defense One
March 21, 2018
It's too soon to know what will be in this year's defense authorization. But the proposal's likely to remain contentious, said Kingston Reif, a nonproliferation expert at the Arms Control Association. “What we heard today suggests there's division on the Armed Services Committee about the need and rationale for this proposal,”Ãâà...
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 20, 2018
... to manage the program and a restructuring of the health benefit itself that was mandated in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The new East and West regions both saw problems with long call center wait times, backlogged enrollments and referrals and delayed payments to providers.
DefenseNews.com
March 19, 2018
For the 2019 defense policy bill the armed services committees are drafting now, the National Defense Authorization Act, what's coming from your subcommittee? My number one priority is nuclear modernization, and to make sure that we stay on that path. I don't think we have room to postpone anything.
Nextgov
March 12, 2018
The MGT Act became law in December as part of the annual defense authorization bill. Focused on updating aging systems, the law creates a central fund that agencies can borrow from and working capital funds where they can stash savings to pay for future IT projects. OMB issued guidance Feb.
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 7, 2018
DoD still doesn't know how much O&M money it will have to spend for 2018 without an appropriations bill, but the 2018 defense authorization act allows for nearly $250 billion for O&M accounts. So, how is DoD going to spend it all in 2018? It's going to ask for more time. But there are a lot of options as toÃâà...
GPS World magazine
December 31, 1999
While it sounded like good news at first, once the real results were plucked from the slurry, they resemble nothing so much as the same old uncertainties. About the future of GPS III, I mean. Additional money allocated by Congress to the Department of Defense budget — $80 billion on top of $549 billion for FY18 and $85Ãâà...
Federal Times
December 31, 1999
The National Defense Authorization Act included four sections extending the authority for agency heads to waive pay and benefits caps for certain ... Management has issued guidance on how agency heads should address pay extensions established in the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.
