Budget

The Fiscal Year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) legislation being considered by Congress would restrict Missile Defense Agency (MDA) funding to no more than $15 million for co-production of […]

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released his annual Wastebook spending oversight report to highlight “wasteful and low-priority spending totaling nearly $30 billion,” which this year featured numerous military acquisition programs and community outreach […]

The House-Senate National Defense Authorization Act of fiscal year 2014 would restrict procurement funds for General Dynamics’ [GD] Stryker vehicle upgrades until the Army submits a report on the status […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee chairwoman yesterday urged her colleagues to quickly pass the Bipartisan Budget Agreement this week so her committee can begin its work writing an omnibus appropriations bill […]

Congress would hold off on spending some Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) funds on the Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program until an in-depth report requested in the FY’14 […]

Joint aircraft programs do not produce the expected life-cycle cost savings across the military and the benefits are too small to offset the cost growth that takes place in the […]

The Senate on Sunday will begin what could be a long parliamentary process to pass both the Bipartisan Budget Act and the National Defense Authorization Act, though votes won’t take […]

A new defense authorization bill that reflected both House and Senate bill language from earlier in the year passed the House of Representatives Thursday evening in an overwhelming 350-69 vote. […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday it has received its first clean audit opinion on its finances from an independent auditor KPMG. “Simply put, the clean audit is […]

If Congress passes the Bipartisan Budget Agreement that was rolled out earlier this week, defense appropriators are ready to pounce on finishing a line-by-line spending bill by Jan. 15 to […]