Budget

Sticking to his re-election campaign platform last year, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) on Wednesday suggested that the production line for the Coast Guard’s flagship National Security Cutter […]

An attempt by Rep. Joe Courtney (D-Conn.) to restore the original language of the Navy’s 2-4-6 cruiser modernization plan was rejected by the House Armed Services Committee during a markup […]

Republicans on April 29 reached a budget deal that allows Congress to avoid exceeding budget caps by increasing wartime funds, a victory for GOP defense hawks against fiscal conservatives. The […]

The House Armed Services Committee on April 29 shut down an attempt to cut funding for six F-35As from the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) […]

The House Armed Services Committee on April 29 authorized $40 million for establishing a joint program between the United States and Israel to develop technologies that can detect and defeat […]

The House Armed Services Committee released the mark of its version of the defense authorization bill yesterday, with a number of its provisions taken from the acquisition reform bill sponsored […]

The House Armed Service Committee’s defense authorization bill would give the military much of the funding it sought, including additional aircraft, vehicles and weapons beyond what was requested in the […]

Newly-elected Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz) is prepared to offer an amendment that would keep the A-10 Warthog in Air Force fleets for another year, should funding not be present in […]

The House Armed Services Committee quickly moved forward subcommittee marks of the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill ahead of debate by the full committee next week. Only two subcommittees—Seapower […]

The House Armed Services Committee proposal for modernizing the Navy’s Ticonderoga-class fleet will likely be a point of contention when the full committee meets next week to amend the National […]