Budget

Congress remains at a standstill on funding the Department of Homeland Security beyond Feb. 27, with Senate Democrats unwilling to consider the House-passed bill and House Republicans unwilling to rethink […]

A failure by Congress to provide a Homeland Security appropriations bill in some form for the current fiscal year will hamper a range of operations and acquisitions including cyber security, […]

The defense budget cannot meet sequestration caps without wrecking current force readiness, and either personnel or major acquisition programs will have to be sacrificed to invest in key capabilities for […]

The House on Tuesday passed a fiscal year 2015 NASA authorization bill that is almost identical to the one approved last year by the House, but not taken up by […]

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee pushed for more technology advancement in their focus areas after hearing from two National Defense Panel members on the panelists’ investment priorities–highlighting the […]

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Tuesday said that without a full appropriations bill for his department this year key border security initiatives will remain stalled. “As long as this […]

President Obama’s FY ’16 budget proposal, released Feb. 2, allocates $14 billion to support cybersecurity efforts across government, an increase of about $1 billion over the previous year. “No foreign […]

The Senate voted three times this week to move forward with a Department of Homeland Security funding bill–which includes both DHS appropriations and measures to block the president’s 2014 executive […]

The Senate on Wednesday again was unable to muster enough votes to invoke cloture to proceed with the Department of Homeland Security’s FY ’15 spending bill, which President Barack Obama […]

With Democrats staunchly opposed, the Senate on Tuesday failed to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed with an FY ’15 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]