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Details of President’s Budget Request Emerge

Released last week, President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2024 budget request contains $842 billion for the Defense Department. The total is $26 billion — or 3% — more than what Congress appropriated for the Pentagon in the omnibus spending bill in December... Read More Details

Pentagon’s Inability to Pass Audit Raises Concerns

The Defense Department lacks adequate guidance to oversee its business and financial systems, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. The GAO report also found that the Pentagon risks investing funds in developing and... Read More Details

Higher Cancer Rates Found in Military Pilots, Ground Crews

U.S. military pilots and ground crews are at higher risk for certain cancers than the general population, according to a recent Pentagon study. The study found that air crews had a 24% higher overall cancer rate, while cancer among ground crews was 3... Read More Details

Full-Year CR Would Be 'Historically Costly,' Brown Warns Senate

The U.S. military will have to slow recruiting, cut shipbuilding, delay nuclear modernization and put off all new military construction projects if Congress doesn't pass fiscal year 2024 appropriations, according to Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the... Read More Details

2024 Legislative Workshop

Agenda The Legislative Workshop provides a unique opportunity for Legislative Liaisons and Congressional Affairs Contact Officers from each state, territory, and D.C. to learn about the legislative process and hear from National Guard leaders... Read More Details

Industry Day Brings Together Buyers, Sellers

NGAUS will once again bring together National Guard leaders and officials from many defense companies at the association’s 26th Annual Industry Day. Industry officials will gather Dec. 11-12 at the National Guard Memorial, the association’s... Read More Details

Inspired Gifts

The McGinn family of Quincy, Massachusetts, had quite a day Nov. 18. First, the NGAUS board of directors elected retired Maj. Gen. Francis M. McGinn the next association president. Then, the National Guard Educational Foundation recognized him and... Read More Details

Another Test

Under the oppressive Georgia heat and humidity, 12 squads from across the Army — including one representing the Army National Guard — battled it out at Fort Stewart Sept. 29-Oct. 6 in the 2023 U.S. Army Best Squad Competition. Digital Version The... Read More Details

NGAUS: Myths Continue to Delay Creation of a Space National Guard

WASHINGTON (Dec. 7, 2023) — Retired Brig. Gen. J. Roy Robinson, the NGAUS president, issued the following statement on the House and Senate Conference Report on the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. “Once again, those entrusted to... Read More Details

Gold Star Wife Thanks NGEF for Keeping a Father's Words Alive

Ursula Palmer still remembers the prophetic words from her then-husband the day in 2006 when he told her that he had volunteered to deploy to Afghanistan. “He told me about the people he was going to go with. He tried to give me every single argument... Read More Details