Budget

The House Armed Services Committee is still working on its Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Bill but has thus far passed amendments to encourage work on several energy weapons, […]

The Navy was the clear winner in the post-Asia-pivot defense authorization bill the House Armed Services Committee released Monday, with the Navy procurement account gaining $1.36 billion – more than […]

The House Armed Services Committee released a defense authorization bill that saves many of the programs the Defense Department wanted to cut, adds funding for ballistic missile defense and space-related […]

The House Armed Services Committee will release its full Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act language Monday morning, which will include the marked-up subcommittee language passed April 30 and […]

The House Armed Services Committee would reject the Navy’s plan to lay up 11 of its 22 cruisers for modernization and instead allow only two ships at a time to […]

House lawmakers have placed language into the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2015 attempting to roll back the Navy’s recent revision to the way it counts ships. The proposal […]

A key lawmaker said Thursday’s she’s deeply troubled with NASA’s budget request and proposed cuts to science programs, including the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA’s fiscal year 2015 budget request […]

House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said committee members were pushing back against nearly all the tough choices the Pentagon had to make in its fiscal year […]

The House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee ranking member said he was very concerned lawmakers were adding too many items into the Fiscal Year 2015 National Defense Authorization Act without […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds a Defense Department report to congressional defense committees on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system’s test program offers limited insight. The April 30 report, […]