The leaders of the military services are promising a transformative 2023 budget, even though it seems unlikely that the Biden administration will increase the Defense Department’s budget.
The Pentagon spent the last few years building the foundation of a new military focused on near-peer competition with China and Russia and filled with prototypes of advanced capabilities aimed at keeping the United States’ technological edge over its rivals.
“We’re moving out right now to look at the hundreds of proposals that have come in that are multi-component that are tied to our joint warfighting concepts,” Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said Wednesday at the Defense News Conference. “We want to fund programs that can deliver real capabilities, concrete capabilities soon and we will be including the best of those proposals inside the 2023 defense budget once it’s been fully approved.”
What the services are teasing at for 2023 is a realization of about five years of work to modernize the military and develop innovative capabilities that use artificial intelligence, man-machine teaming, hypersonics, long-range precision arms and other advancements.
“I don’t know if you look at the dollars for 2023 that it will send a message, but what I think will is the approach we are taking,” said Gen. C.Q. Brown, chief of staff of the Air Force. “What we were doing for the last couple years was the on ramps, the demonstration evaluations. What we are trying to get to now is providing an...
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