Welcome back to the Rundown! The Senate voted on Wednesday to send the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, to President Joe Biden. If signed into law, the NDAA would give junior enlisted service members a 14.5% pay raise effective April 1, 2025.
Quick reminder: The NDAA is a defense policy bill, not a budget. Congress still has not passed a spending bill for this fiscal year, which began nearly three months ago.
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A small number of British trainers have been in Ukraine for some time, while the vast bulk of Ukrainian soldiers undergo training in the UK.
QinetiQ, a company that delivers test, trials, training, and evaluation services for UK MoD, has placed an order with Celestia STS.
The US DIU chose Viasat to provide networking capabilities for Replicator, focusing on command and control connectivity for uncrewed systems.
Anthony Capaccio, BNN Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) — Lockheed Martin Corp. is on track to meet its goal of delivering at least 100 F-35 jets to the U.S.
Jihoon Yu, RealClearDefense
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The United States is actively developing non-nuclear offensive capabilities based on several maneuverable hypersonic weapon systems.
Dan Grazier, RespState
When they’ve resorted to arguing ‘it’s a job creator,’ you know there isn’t much military use.
Many military members do not seek mental health services because they don’t think getting that care will remain private — and that concern is not unwarranted, according to a new report.
Fear of their treatment becoming known to coworkers creates “clear disincentives to mental health care for military members,” according to a new report from the RAND Corporation. Confusion over when and how their medical information — including mental health diagnoses — can be handed over to their chain of command is common, with both troops and leaders.