Next-Gen Bombers Likely Also in Classified Budget
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Next-gen bombers and subs are in the DoD budget, but more funds are likely hidden in the classified budget, reports Defense Tech.
The Aviationist reports, every F-16 in the USAF now includes a pilot activated switch for computerized recovery in response to impending collision and an automatic recovery system if the threatening collision is with the ground. There’s video.
The Navy pushed back its UCLASS fielding date, the project already lagging as the Pentagon determines what type of UAV it wants, reports USNI news.
The administration’s 7 percent hike to the Marine Corps FY16 budget seeks new high-tech platforms and an old style expeditionary, emergency response, Stars and Stripes reports. The Marine Corps budget requests $24 billion for the base budget and $1.3 billion for “overseas contingency operations.”
Military Times laments the 1.3 percent military pay raise in the DoD budget submitted this week to Congress, comparing the hike to private sector wages, reported this week to be up 2.3 percent.
Cuts to commissaries’ days and hours remain on the table, and officials want to increase the 5 percent surcharge applied to the cost of items sold, reports Military Times. Surcharge money is used to build and maintain commissaries and to pay for store equipment. Taxpayer dollars cover overhead and employee wages and benefits.
The president’s Pentagon budget had a head start, arriving on Monday, but today, Wednesday, his nominee for Secretary of Defense makes his opening appearance on Capital Hill, reports Military Times.
It was a long slog for the Osprey, but this Military Times video of the history of the tiltrotor aircraft developed by Bell Helicopter and Boeing Helicopters is a testimonial to continued testing, improving, and finally perfecting.
The Senate passed the bill Tuesday aimed at preventing military suicides. The Atlantic reports on a potential treatment to end the nightmares of PTSD.
About 400 employees of the Naval Sea Systems Command reported to work this week at Building 197 at the Washington Navy Yard, closed since the September 2013 shooting when 12 people were killed and four injured, reports Military Times.
