Budget

The Navy and Marine Corps are overextended and stressed, with not enough ships to meet demands and maintenance deferred as deployments become longer and longer. A new study by the […]

The Air Force’s current plan to buy anywhere from 80 to 100 Long Range Strike Bombers (LRSB) will not be sufficient to meet operational requirements, and double that number could […]

House leaders are contemplating the addition of funds to the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account—which funds wartime expenses—to augment operations against the Islamic State terror group, the chairman of the […]

The Bipartisan Budget Agreement might not preclude a fight in fiscal year 2017 over Pentagon spending, as the chairmen of both congressional armed services committees want to see a greater […]

The fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill has been passed, vetoed, modified, and now–after being passed by the Senate on Tuesday morning–it will once again head to President Barack Obama’s […]

The House on Thursday passed the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill in a bipartisan, landslide 370-58 vote, but dreams of a more bipartisan Congress turned out to be shortlived […]

The Air Force’s new bomber, Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and MQ-9 Reaper were among the weapons programs affected when lawmakers on Monday evening chopped $5 billion from the National Defense Authorization […]

President Barack Obama on Monday signed the Bipartisan Budget Agreement into law, increasing spending caps for defense and non-defense accounts for the next two years and raising the debt limit […]

In a 266-167 vote, House on Wednesday evening approved the Bipartisan Budget Deal, which raises spending limits imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011 for two years as well […]

House Armed Service Committee (HASC) Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) on Wednesday morning laid out two potential methods for passing in the National Defense Authorization Act: either Congress can override President […]