DSJ is hearing that incoming Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) has informed the Senate Leadership that he is seeking a seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC).   The late Senator Kennedy held a SASC seat for decades and it is anticipated that Senator Brown's request will be granted. 

The Obama Administration is due to roll-out the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), a Ballistic Missile Defense Review (BMDR), a Space Posture Review (SPR), and a Strategic Communications Review (a month late) in coordination with the President’s budget recommendations for fiscal year 2011.  That budget submission should include the 5-year future years defense program (FYDP), the future years nuclear security program (FYNSP), as well as the 30-year military aviation plan and shipbuilding plan.  Conspicuously missing from this spate of submissions is the Nuclear Posture Review (delayed until March 1^st), the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (due from State in July 2010), a gaggle of other proposed quadrennial reviews for intelligence and homeland security, and the Administration's National Security Strategy.