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GAO Report on U.S. Air Force Readiness

11 October 2018

The following is the Oct. 10, 2018 Government Accountability Office report, Air Force Readiness: Actions Needed to Rebuild Readiness and Prepare for the Future.

From the Report

GAO’s prior work has highlighted that the Air Force faces management and readiness challenges in four interrelated areas:

Personnel: The Air Force has reported that pilot and aircraft maintainer shortfalls are a key challenge to rebuilding readiness. GAO found in April 2018 that the Air Force had fewer fighter pilots than...

https://news.usni.org/2018/10/11/gao-report-u-s-air-force-readiness

Panel: Military Tensions in Europe Continue to Run High Between NATO, Moscow

4 October 2018

A Danish soldier (left) coaches a U.S. Army Soldier with the 82nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, as he uses a Danish M60 Machine Gun during a multinational weapons training session in Tapa, Estonia on March 10, 2018. US Army Photo

The admission of the Baltic nations of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia to NATO was the “fattest of red line” warnings to Russia to stay clear of the western European military, a transatlantic expert on foreign policy...

https://news.usni.org/2018/10/04/panel-military-tensions-europe-continue-run-high-nato-moscow

Navy’s COD Transition from C-2A to CMV-22B Accelerated; First V-22 Deployment Set for 2021

1 October 2018

Concept art of the CMV-22 follow-on carrier onboard delivery aircraft. Boeing Image

The Navy has accelerated the sunset of its legacy C-2A Greyhound cargo airplanes and the transition to the CMV-22B Osprey, with the new tiltrotor aircraft now set to deliver in Fiscal Year 2020 and deploy in 2021.

The variant of the Marines’ MV-22B Osprey leverages a hot production line and will be able to go through a shorter testing process due to being so similar to an in-use aircraft. In fact, a contract...

https://news.usni.org/2018/10/01/navys-cod-transition-c-2a-cmv-22b-accelerated-first-v-22-deployment-set-2021

Navy Awards Ingalls 6 Destroyers, Bath Iron Works 4 in Multiyear Deal; Ingalls to Build Both 2018 Ships

27 September 2018

The Ingalls-built destroyer Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) launched at first light Saturday morning, Nov. 12, 2016. Ingalls Shipbuilding photo.

The Navy awarded six of its next Arleigh Burke-class destroyers to Ingalls Shipbuilding and four to General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, in a combined $9-billion purchase right at the end of the fiscal year.

The two companies had been competing for work in a five-year multiyear procurement (MYP) deal that would cover at least 10 Flight III destroyers. The contracts...

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/27/navy-awards-ingalls-6-destroyers-bath-iron-works-4-in-multiyear-deal-ingalls-to-build-both-fy-2018-ships

Coast Guard Renames New Icebreaker Program ‘Polar Security Cutter’

27 September 2018

Crew of U.S Coast Guard icebreaker USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10) in 2014. US Coast Guard Photo

The U.S. Coast Guard changed the name of its heavy icebreaker program to highlight its importance to national security, as funding for the first-in-class ship may be in jeopardy.

Now dubbed the Polar Security Cutter, Coast Guard leadership and backers on Capitol Hill are determined to secure funding for the planned new class of heavy icebreaker – the first for the Coast Guard in more than four decades – by...

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/27/36846

SASC Quizzes SOUTHCOM Nominee on Drug War Command and Control

26 September 2018

US SOUTHCOM nominee Vice Adm. Craig Faller testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Sept. 25, 2018. DoD Photo

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee told nominee to lead Southern Command they want to consider new command and control structures to oversee the U.S. fight against narcotics trafficking.

During the Tuesday confirmation hearing for Vice Adm. Craig Faller, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) said there was no clear leadership between the Defense Department, Homeland...

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/25/sasc-quizzes-southcom-nominee-drug-war-command-control

HASC Chair Thornberry Doesn’t Anticipate Spending Dip in Next Defense Budget

26 September 2018

House Armed Services Committee chairman Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) traveled to Europe in mid-April with several members of Congress to visit troops stationed overseas and to meet with our allies in the region. Among other stops, he met with Maj. Gen. Niel Nelson, commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa, right.

CAPITOL HILL — A time of steady, predictable military funding could be at hand, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said on Tuesday.

The House of...

https://news.usni.org/2018/09/25/hasc-chair-expects-fy2020-defense-spending-to-be-similar-to-fy-2019

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