Budget

The House Appropriations defense subcommittee on Tuesday questioned several moves proposed by the Navy and Marine Corps in the fiscal year 2015 budget request that would shrink the size of […]

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bill that would pay for support to Ukraine by taking out money from the Defense Department’s unobligated balances, a move that House Armed […]

The Air Force’s decision to retire its A-10 fleet of close-air support planes was based on minimizing the impact to its overall warfighting capability, and any efforts by Congress to […]

The House Armed Services Committee, saddled with budget caps that do not allow the military to meet all its stated requirements set forth in the Quadrennial Defense Review released last […]

Several lawmakers slammed the Navy for its plans for the aircraft carrier fleet in the fiscal year 2015 budget request, and the Chief of Naval Operations asked for unrequested “seed […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee will examine federal investments in research and development, in light of the president’s budget request that did not boost scientific spending to match the rate of […]

If Congress indicated it was willing to spend an additional $115 billion to maintain higher troop levels for the Army and Marine Corps and an 11th aircraft carrier in the […]

A Defense Department official rejected the notion that the Quadrennial Defense Review did not meet its mandatory requirements and therefore should be rewritten, as House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck […]

Even before the Defense Department released its Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), lawmakers had already threatened to reject it–and they followed through on their threats as soon as the report was […]

As congressional committees continue to dissect the defense budget request for the next two months, a few key pieces of information are still being compiled: chiefly, the Overseas Contingency Operations […]