The Senate is scheduled to vote on the annual defense authorization bill [this] week amid parliamentary fights that stalled debate on most amendments. A vote to advance the bill passed Friday, 68-23. – Defense News
As the Senate nears completion of its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, Defense Secretary Ash Carter continues to warn against “micromanagement” coming from the Hill. – Defense News
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Friday pledged to revive a fight over military spending when the Senate takes up its defense funding bill. – The Hill
The upgraded frigate variant of the Littoral Combat Ship isn’t much of an improvement over the controversial original, the Government Accountability Office says, because the Navy was too focused on keeping costs down and production lines humming. – Breaking Defense
The Navy is now finalizing the weapons, sensors and technologies it plans to engineer into a new, more survivable and lethal Littoral Combat Ship variant designed to perform anti-submarine and surface warfare functions at the same time, service officials said. – Scout Warrior
Trust your robots. Trust your tech industry. Trust your troops. Let go of traditional mechanisms of control — be it a human pilot in the cockpit or a formal requirements document for a program — that increasingly serve to slow you down. That was the message between the lines when Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and his protégé, Strategic Capabilities Office chief William Roper, spoke Friday afternoon at the Defense One Tech Summit. – Breaking Defense
Despite key votes in Congress, it remained unclear Friday whether the United States is closer to an historic move requiring women to register for the military draft. – Stars and Stripes
Stephen Rodriguez and Dan Mathis write: In the private sector, companies that opt for incremental versus radical reform often end up being overtaken by a challenger. In the matter of national defense, such an outcome would have catastrophic consequences. – War on the Rocks