Military Leaders Warn of Risks to Armed Forces' Readiness in Temporary Funding Bill
WASHINGTON — Military service leaders told senators Wednesday that passing a temporary budget that keeps defense spending largely flat will hurt readiness and efforts to modernize the armed forces. The vice chiefs of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force said that if they don’t get additional funding, they at least need the flexibility […]
Pentagon Holding Back on Hypersonic Weapons' Risks, GAO Says
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon isn’t giving Congress and the public a full assessment of its difficulties and challenges developing hypersonic weapons to counter those already deployed by China and Russia, according to congressional auditors. Despite test failures with Air Force and Army systems that were supposed to become operational already, the Pentagon “is not comprehensively […]