CSBA in the News

The Navy plans to hire more sailors in 2016, but questions about future manpower levels and other issues remain.

The $585 billion fiscal year 2016 defense budget request — so painstakingly sculpted by White House and Pentagon before being sent to Capitol Hill this week — will likely die a long, complicated death as it winds its way through the congressional committees, analysts say.

The Pentagon has mapped out a $2.77 trillion spending plan for the next five years, a military buildup after five years of decline that would exceed existing budget caps by $155 billion, or 5.9 percent.

We won’t know much about it, but protecting America’s military satellites and the data they gather and share is a key target of the 2016 service budget.

President Obama’s budget proposal to eliminate roughly 4,000 civilian employees in the Department of Defense is likely to raise a storm of protest from federal workers and their allies on Capitol Hill.

President Barack Obama’s 2016 budget for national security is a reflection of the administration’s desire to hold fast to its Asia-Pacific pivot strategy even as newer threats like the rise of the Islamic State and Russia’s aggression in Europe impose new spending demands on various U.S. agencies.