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"From the DoD's perspective, they're highly dependent on [Asia] for fabrication and packaging [of chips]," Hudson Institute's Bryan Clark tells Breaking Defense. This has led to DoD calls to address a "fragile and threatened" chip supply chain.
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on June 03, 2021 at 1:46 PM
Modifications to the latest version of the Navy DDG-51 destroyer, the Flight III. CREDIT: GAO
WASHINGTON: Days after a leading congressman criticized the Navy’s 2022 budget for buying only one Aegis destroyer instead of two, the Navy released an unfunded requirements list with that second destroyer right at the top of the chart. The almost $1.7 billion line item was almost certainly on the draft list before Rep. Joe Courtney’s public critique, but the House seapower chairman’s reaction can only have helped cement its place as the No. 1 thing the Navy would like Congress to add to its budget request. (Since it’s likely to be added to the annual spending bill anyway because of the high congressional interest, it makes it even easier to put it on the list…)
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Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on June 01, 2021 at 11:06 AM
USS Dewey (DDG 105) fires an SM-2 missile.
WASHINGTON: The chairman of the House seapower subcommittee, Rep. Joe Courtney, fired a shot across the bow of the White House shipbuilding budget, questioning its proposed cuts to surface warships.
An even more prominent Democrat, Senate Armed Services chairman Jack Reed, signaled loud and clear he plans to treat the Biden budget as a rough draft, not gospel. While Reed didn’t cite specific areas of disagreement the way Courtney did, he sounded sympathetic to pleas for higher spending.
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“The President’s Defense Budget Request is an outline and a starting point,” Reed said in a statement late Friday. “Of note, Fiscal Year 2022 is the first in many years that we will not be constrained by the Budget Control Act. Eliminating arbitrary spending caps means every department’s budget can, and should, be argued on its merits.”
The budget requests funding for four new teams for the Cyber Mission Force. Those teams will support CYBERCOM operations and provide cyber support for space operations.