2025 U.S. Budget-Defense

A new House proposal to avert a government shutdown includes a provision to force the Pentagon to keep the Boeing E-7A Wedgetail program moving at pace.

The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have released the compromise fiscal 2025 defense policy bill, which remains under a required spending cap despite efforts from some key lawmakers to raise the spending ceiling.

Launching a war on drug cartels, ending the Russia-Ukraine war and expanding missile defense all have potential consequences.

Intensifying budget pressures are forcing USAF to “take another look” at spending plans for its prized Next Generation Air Dominance fighter, says Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.

The agency proposes a major revamp of the U.S. Army’s most advanced theater-level interceptor 16 years after the first battery was activated.

The measure, known as the chairman’s mark, cuts $2.97 billion from the procurement accounts to help cover the $3.83 billion increase for personnel spending.

The U.S. Army within the past few weeks ran a GE Aerospace T901 engine on Sikorsky’s Raider X prototype to evaluate it.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has taken over operations of its new missile defense radar in Alaska, which is also tracking objects on orbit for the Space Force.

The U.S. Navy on April 18 received its first two Textron T-54A Multiengine Training System aircraft.

As the U.S. Air Force continues the planned retirement of its A-10 attack jet fleet, the service secretary says one country has reached out with some interest to obtain the aircraft.

The F-35 Joint Program Office is now targeting acceptance of a long-awaited avionics upgrade for July.

The U.S. Navy is now in a “source selection environment” for its future F/A-XX fighter.

When the Air Force rolled out its 2025 budget request, Secretary Kendall warned due to spending constraints, the service is not moving as quickly as needed.

Choices by Air Force and Navy leaders highlight an age-old tension: preserve present-day capacity, or trade readiness today for capability tomorrow?

Spending on defense has increased at an average rate of 5.4% in real terms in the three years since 2021.

The U.S. Navy’s drastic cut to its next-generation fighter was a conscious decision to deal with congressionally imposed budget cuts.

The U.S. Air Force recently completed initial operational test and evaluation (IOT&E) of a major new electronic warfare suite for the F-15E and F-15EX.

The Space Force is starting market R&D of an acquisition strategy for a new constellation of protected communication satellites.

Combined spending on procurement and RDT&E will reach 36.6% of overall U.S. defense spending in fiscal 2027, a level not seen since the end of the Cold War.

A final fiscal 2024 budget proposal ignores pleas from GE Aerospace to extend development of adaptive turbofan engines for two variants of the F-35C.

House and Senate appropriators seek to add dozens of aircraft to the Pentagon’s budget in a last-minute plan that needs to pass ahead of the March 22 deadline.

Facing a reduction to its expected budget next year, the military cuts back on near-term aircraft procurement.

The fifth test of the AGM-183A all-up round in 15 months yielded a familiarly vague statement from the Air Force about the results.

The command now plans to buy 62 of the militarized cropdusters by the end of fiscal 2027 instead of all 75 aircraft due to funding constraints.

The announcement means Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman will be selected two years early for the next intercontinental ballistic missile-class interceptor.