President-Elect Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate retired four-star Gen. Lloyd Austin to serve as the 28th U.S. defense secretary.

France’s future aircraft carrier will be nuclear powered, President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed, but there is still no firm decision on whether there will be more than one ship.

The House intends to vote on a one-week continuing resolution Dec. 9, which would avert a federal government shutdown.

The House plans to vote on the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill Dec. 8, and the top Democrat and Republican on the House Armed Services Committee are prepared for Congress to override President Donald Trump if he vetoes the measure.

The House and Senate fiscal 2021 defense authorization compromise bill agrees that the future service acquisition executive for space systems may delegate milestone decision authority to a program executive officer for U.S. Space Force major defense acquisition programs.

The House and Senate fiscal 2021 defense policy compromise bill would require an independent assessment of the U.S. Army’s plans for the CH-47F Block II upgrade.

Overall FMS transactions in 2020 declined by 8% compared to the previous year’s mark of $55.4 billion, and by 8.77% from a modern peak of $55.66 billion set by the Trump administration in 2018.

The fiscal 2021 defense policy compromise bill would require the U.S. cost assessment and program evaluation office at the Pentagon to conduct an independent assessment of the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System product lines.