Congress

By Emelie Rutherford The lengthy $3 billion reprogramming request the Pentagon sent to Congress last week seeks to shift funding to cover 10 "new-start" efforts, including buying communications- relaying aircraft […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy will have a new acquisition chief soon, because the Senate on Wednesday approved the nomination of congressional staffer Sean Stackley to the post. Stackley will […]

By Emelie Rutherford Key lawmakers on defense panels said yesterday they were not sold on the Navy’s new plan to stop the DDG-1000 destroyer program at the two ships already […]

By Emelie Rutherford The chances of the Senate taking up the fiscal year 2009 defense authorization bill before Congress’ August recess appear to be dimming, even though leading defense authorizers […]

By Geoff Fein Following a high-level meeting yesterday with top DoD leaders, the Navy is poised to notify Congress of its intention to build only two DDG-1000s and restart the […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon sent a tardy $3 billion omnibus reprogramming request to Capitol Hill last Thursday, seeking overall to decrease Air Force and defense-wide accounts and bolster Army […]

By Emelie Rutherford Congressional staffer Sean Stackley may be cleared to become the Navy acquisition chief in the near future, because Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is expected to lift a […]

By Calvin Biesecker New technologies currently under development will compete beginning in April 2009 in an operational test and evaluation to see how well they performs in automatically collecting and […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House’s lead defense appropriators are crafting language in the Pentagon’s appropriations bill expressing frustration with allowing a $800 million expenditure for a new Air Force tanker […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Monday notified Congress it will meet interim and final deadlines mandated by Congress for screening 100 percent of all air cargo […]