DefenceTalkFORT MEADE: Anyone wanting to stay abreast of the initiatives set through the Army’s budget can now download a document which explains many of the Army’s sought-after changes. In February, the force released its “Fiscal Year 2019-2021 Accomplishments and Investment Plan” shortly after announcement of the Army’s FY21 budget request. The FY19-21 plan outlines how […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-budgets-target-transformational-change-74788/

Army leaders have issued a full list of programs eliminated or reduced during the latest “night court” review, designed to help fund modernization priorities amid the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request. In all, more than $1.2 billion was freed from legacy programs throughout the Army, with more than $868.9 million from 39 reductions, and $324.1 […]

DefenceTalk“The Army must produce units ready today to win decisively … against an aggressive Russia or its surrogates,” said Acting Secretary of the Army Patrick Murphy. Murphy and Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Mark A. Milley testified, March 3, at a House Committee on Appropriations, Defense subcommittee hearing about the proposed fiscal year […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-budget-focuses-on-asymmetric-threats-66949/

DefenceTalkIncluded within the $126.5 billion the Army has asked for in its fiscal 2016 base annual budget, is some $230 million for professional military education for Soldiers. The request represents an increase of about 21 percent over the $190 million the Army asked for last year, said Maj. Gen. Thomas A. Horlander, director of the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-requests-126bn-for-fy2016-budget-62605/

DefenceTalkSoldiers will see a one percent pay raise in 2014. Their untaxed paycheck will also benefit from a 3.9 percent increase in basic allowance for housing and a 3.4 percent increase in basic allowance for subsistence as well. The Army announced April 10 its fiscal year 2014 budget request, which amounts to $129.7 billion — […]https://www.defencetalk.com/in-2014-soldiers-get-1-percent-raise-3-9-percent-increase-in-bah-47450/