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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) (C) talks with Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) during the confirmation hearing for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Capitol Hill on January 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

5 hot topics Dan ‘Razin’ Caine might address during his confirmation hearing Tuesday

President Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will face questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee this week.

Mar 31, 2025 By Jon Harper

Troy Meink appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his nomination to be secretary of the Air Force in Washington, D.C., March 27, 2025. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)

Trump’s Air Force secretary nominee pledges ‘holistic look’ at service modernization efforts

Troy Meink also told lawmakers that the Department of the Air Force must move faster on innovating new technologies.

Mar 27, 2025 By Mikayla Easley

Lt. Gen. Dan Caine (left) meets with Sen. Jim Banks. (Photo courtesy of Sen. Banks’ office)

Dan ‘Razin’ Caine, Trump’s nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, set to testify at confirmation hearing

Caine is slated to appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee next week.

Mar 26, 2025 By Jon Harper

U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Jan. 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Protection of spectrum by Congress also protects Trump’s Iron Dome from shortsighted 5G policy

The binary choice many in the telecommunications industry are lobbying Congress to make would kill President Trump’s Iron Dome for America and continue to leave the U.S.…

Feb 26, 2025 By Sen. Mike Rounds

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed (D-RI) (L) and ranking member Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) talk before a confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Senators amplify concerns about pace of fielding AI-enabled counter-drone systems

A report accompanying the Senate version of the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act highlighted members’ concerns about where things stand.

Jul 12, 2024 By Jon Harper

An UH-60 Black Hawk flies multiple passes at different altitudes over the runway during a series of 5G avionics tests March 2, 2022, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. A 5G mobile test station was used during the testing as part of demonstration to implement 5G technologies without compromising the safety of military and civilian aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo by Cynthia Griggs)

Senators express concerns about national spectrum strategy’s impact on DOD

“At this time, it would be counterproductive to initiate additional studies of the lower 3GHz Band,” members of Congress wrote in a letter to the White House.

Feb 7, 2024 By Mikayla Easley

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing to be the next leader of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Cybercom nominee urges lawmakers to pass policy and spending bills to addressing readiness issues

Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh said passing the NDAA and appropriations bills are essential for the command's growth and maturation.

Jul 20, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

U.S. Capitol Building (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Senate panel trying to mandate creation of military cyber intelligence capability

A provision for the initiative was included in the Senate Armed Services Committee's version of the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.

Jul 17, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau

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Senators push DOD to create enterprisewide ICAM program of record

The Senate version of the fiscal 2024 NDAA would require the Defense Department to transition its existing ICAM initiative into a program of record.

Jul 13, 2023 By Mikayla Easley

Members of the Mexican police patrol their side of the border, as a member of the US military walks past a barb wire fence in Eagle Pass, Texas, on May 10, 2023. The US on May 11, 2023, will officially end its 40-month Covid-19 emergency, also discarding the Title 42 law, a tool that has been used to prevent millions of migrants from entering the country. The US border with Mexico will be “chaotic for a while,” President Joe Biden acknowledged on May 9, 2023, days before the lifting of pandemic-era rules that have made claiming asylum at the frontier all but impossible. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Senate panel wants to green-light US military cyber ops against Mexican cartels

A provision in the SASC version of the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act tasks the secretary of defense with developing a strategy to use cyber to…

Jul 12, 2023 By Mark Pomerleau