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Republican presidential candidates touched briefly on Pentagon weapons-buying–including fixed-price contracts and Navy shipbuilding–during their Saturday night debate. Some observers, though,want to hear more from the GOP field on defense budgeting. […]

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned yesterday that if the Pentagon receives the largest-possible budget cuts, weapon programs including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the next-generation bomber, the Littoral Combat Ship, […]

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on Feb. 10 for the Pentagon to unite behind a strategic review intended to determine where $450 billion in budget cuts will be made, which he […]

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) joined a growing number of lawmakers yesterday who have pledged to fight automatic Pentagon budget cuts slated to be made if a deficit panel and Congress […]

A Senate panel chairman said yesterday he will offer legislative proposals intended to thwart counterfeit parts from entering the defense supply chain, including one requiring contractors pay for fake electronics […]

The Obama administration unveiled yesterday proposals for making it easier for U.S. companies to export some military aircraft equipment. A defense-industry group hailed the publishing of the proposed export rule changes, […]

A Senate committee investigation found myriad instances of suspected counterfeit parts in weapon systems including military aircraft, and it leaders want the defense industry to contribute more for replacement parts. […]

Cutting Equals Stopping. The House’s version of the FY ’12 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill, which cuts 77 percent of the research and development budget within the Science and Technology Directorate, […]

The House began debating a Coast Guard authorization bill last Friday that the White House has threatened to veto because it would force the service to retire an icebreaking ship. […]

The Air Force aired its objections yesterday to changes lawmakers are trying to make to its plans for its B-1, B-2, and B-52 bombers in the current fiscal year’s budget. […]