Budget

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) believes it is possible lawmakers could pass a continuing resolution (CR) this week. “We will not leave town until we get all of our […]

The U.S. House approved the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization conference report by a wide margin Dec. 2, voting 375 to 34 to send the measure to the Senate for […]

The position of under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics (AT&L) will survive intact for another fiscal year. Defense authorizers in the compromise version of the fiscal year […]

Congress wants to pump the brakes on rapid expansion of the Pentagon’s tech innovation outreach initiative by limiting funding until it receives a detailed report on the unit’s structure and […]

A provision in the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would require the Army to halt development of data management software if a commercial alternative would suffice to perform the […]

Lawmakers completed conference of the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill and they hope to schedule votes as early as Friday, according to senior aides from the House and Senate […]

Several Army program could be stalled if, like the past eight years, the Pentagon is forced to operate under a continuing resolution into 2017. New programs cannot start and ongoing […]

Six senators and 33 House members have signed letters urging key congressional appropriators to pass language allowing the successor to the Navy’s Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine to enter its next […]

House and Senate conferees working on the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill have not reached a deal to move forward while Republican lawmakers decided to pursue a continuing resolution […]

Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) member Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) won’t vote for another continuing resolution (CR) and wants an omnibus style appropriations package, he told reporters Tuesday. Graham said he […]