Budget

The House Homeland Security Committee yesterday marked up and unanimously approved a series of bills aimed at improving the acquisition process at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), assessing the cyber […]

While the B83 nuclear gravity bomb could accomplish the same tasks as the B61, the B61 is the better investment for future United States nuclear deterrence, the head of the […]

Boeing [BA] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said Friday they’ll team to pursue the Air Force’s next-generation Long Range Strike Bomber (LRSB) program with Boeing acting as the prime contractor and […]

If the United States’ defense industrial base can’t compete with its foreign competitors, then the United States will lose a significant national security advantage, the ranking member of the House […]

Pentagon officials and many lawmakers agree that constrained spending due to sequestration cuts is harmful to military readiness and to the defense industrial base, but that spending level actually represents […]

The Defense Department and engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Wednesday signed a $508 million contract modification for the sixth lot of F135 propulsion systems for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, […]

Continued sequestration and spending bills based on previous year levels could halve the amount of money required in fiscal 2014 to ramp up toward production of the first ship in […]

The price and available quantity of alternative fuels are preventing the Air Force from using those fuels it has certified for use in its fleet, according to the service’s energy […]

Army and Navy acquisition officials said procurement of the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle could be delayed a year or more because of sequestration, primarily in how it affects the program’s […]

Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) program officials said the government shutdown earlier this month and the continuing resolution that funds the government through Jan. 15 are complicating an otherwise simple […]