Budget

The Defense Department’s fiscal year 2017 budget request will call for a topline of $582.7 billion, hewing closely to the levels set in the Bipartisan Budget Agreement made last year. […]

The House on Monday unanimously approved a two-year bill that authorizes the Coast Guard and Federal Maritime Commission through FY ’17, sending the legislation to President Barack Obama for his […]

The Pentagon after releasing its fiscal year 2017 budget on Feb. 9 will find itself needing to come up with $22 billion to cover the difference between its request and […]

After years of stagnant Pentagon budgets, the next presidential administration will face a defense acquisition bow wave in the early 2020s and will need an influx of funding to pay […]

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has long favored giving the service chiefs an “intimate” role in acquisition programs and plans to lay that opinion out for the Senate […]

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) will tackle the Russian rocket engine restrictions in the upcoming authorization season after they were lifted in the fiscal year 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act. […]

The services’ acquisition officials on Thursday told a House panel that a flexible, “real time” funding account would enable the military to make better use of prototyping and experimentation. In […]

Congress on Friday passed a $1.1 trillion omnibus bill that contains $573 billion for the Defense Department as well as controversial cyber legislation. The defense portion of the package appropriates […]

The Senate on Friday approved by voice vote a two-year authorization bill that provides funding for the Coast Guard for two years and gives the service the authority to spread […]

A bill to fund the federal government through the end of FY ’16 includes an additional high-endurance cutter for the Coast Guard, moving the National Security Cutter (NSC) program beyond […]