Today's D Brief: Draft Afghanistan peace plan; Hill hearing season; CIA’s Sahara base; No NSA-Cybercom split yet; And a bit more.
By Ben Watson
March 9, 2021 10:29 AM ET
The D Brief
It’s posture hearing season, and INDO-PACOM’s commander is up first. U.S. Navy Adm. Philip Davidson is already testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning in a session that began at 9:30 a.m. ET. The ostensible reason for the hearing: a “review of the fiscal 2022 defense authorization request and the Future Years Defense Program.†Catch that live here.
Where that comes from: “In June 2019, the DOD Inspector General (IG) estimated that DOD spent more than $300 million on additional labor costs between 2015 and 2018 as a result of Lockheed Martin’s failure to provide F-35 spare parts with logs and that DOD will continue to pay $55 million a year if issues are not resolved,†the lawmakers write. Much more to that expensive backstory, here.
https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2021/03/the-d-brief-march-09-2021/172541/
