Budget

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Tuesday the massive spending bill unveiled by lawmakers this week that will fund the government through the remainder of the fiscal year could be a […]

The detailed spending bill Congress released Monday night generally preserves military procurement in fiscal year 2014, adding billions of dollars to Navy shipbuilding but slightly reducing the Joint Strike Fighter […]

The FY ’14 Omnibus Appropriations bill agreed to by House and Senate negotiators Monday evening provides a handsome boost to the Coast Guard’s acquisition budget, allowing the service to just […]

Congress gave the military a two-year period of partial relief from sequestration cuts, and the National Guard Bureau is using that as a chance to continue negotiating with the Army […]

Senate Armed Services Committee member Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) pitched a plan Wednesday to overturn cuts to military retirees’ pensions without dipping into any other accounts in the defense budget. Ayotte […]

The defense portion of the fiscal year 2014 spending bill is complete, along with six or seven other of the bill’s 12 sections, while the remaining sections are still under […]

Language requiring the Air Force secretary to develop a plan to implement a new acquisition strategy for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program made it into the fiscal year […]

The Defense Department finally has its authorization bill for fiscal year 2014, even if it came about in an unusual fashion: the House of Representatives had to pass two distinct […]

With a budget and a defense authorization bill finally passed by Congress during the last week of its 2013 session, House and Senate appropriators can now turn their attention to […]

The Pentagon’s top leaders on Thursday welcomed final congressional passage of a budget law that reduces the impact of sequestration for fiscals 2014 and 2015, but cautioned that the relief […]