Funding the Future: The experimental X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator prepares to launch in November. Top Pentagon officials are directing the services to maintain more research and development funding in their fiscal 2015 budget submissions. (US Navy)
Pentagon Seeks To Protect R&D Funding In '15 Budget -- Defense News
WASHINGTON — Senior Pentagon leaders are trying to protect vulnerable research and development (R&D) funding in the fiscal 2015 budget plan, despite desires within the military services to put money toward other near-term initiatives, according to Defense Department officials and sources.
While DoD’s 2015 budget plan is still in flux, the tension over R&D funding has arisen at different points through the arduous process of building the spending plan and has been on the radar of top DoD officials, these sources said.
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Poland Plans Record Defense Spending for 2014 -- Defense News
Intelligence: The Israeli Secret War With Iran -- Strategy Page
‘Systematic torture’: Dossier accusing UK politicians of Iraq war crimes goes to ICC -- RT
UK Army recruitment a 'big challenge' -- BBC
20 years after ‘Black Hawk Down,’ US military advisers back in Somalia -- RT
US deploys small military team to Somalia -- NBC
Source: Pentagon considers training Iraqi forces in counterterrorism -- CNN
South Korea to contribute $867 million for U.S. military forces in 2014 -- Reuters
US tested biological weapons in Japan’s Okinawa in the 60s – report -- RT
Special Operations: Marines Prepare For North Africa -- Strategy Page
Obama to announce NSA decisions on Jan. 17 -- AP
Future Destroyers Likely to Fire Lasers, Rail Guns -- Military.com
In testing phase, new US Navy carrier plagued by problems -- Stars and Stripes
Army must disclose fate of $900 million Stryker part stockpile -- The Olympian
This Is the Navy Helicopter Most Likely to Accidentally Kill You -- War Is Boring
American Sikhs Push To End Army Ban on Beards -- Time
Ten US Air Force officers investigated over drugs -- BBC
US Air Force drug probe grows to 10 officers -- AP
Op-Ed: Morale is high in nuclear force -- Air Force Times (WNU Editor: A bad choice of words for a headline considering the above two posts).
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