Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) is the new chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense (HAC-D), the full committee’s chairwoman said Monday. McCollum, who served as the HAC-D vice chair in the last Congress, replaces the recently retired Pete Visclosky (Ind.). The full slate of ...

Attempting to resolve a long-standing issue of widely distributed jurisdiction over policy matters related to the Department of Homeland Security, 10 House committee chairs on Monday agreed to regular authorization bills for the department and its components, and that they will work with the ...

The Defense Department’s weapons tester did not approve the new Constellation-class (FFG-62) frigate’s approved the anti-air warfare (AAW) test strategy in the overall testing plan because it is “not adequate to determine the operational effectiveness,” according to an annual 2020 ...

Sikorsky [LMT] and Boeing [BA] on Monday detailed their new Defiant X aircraft, the company’s updated offering for the Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition to find a UH-60 Black Hawk replacement. The co-axial rigid rotor Defiant X builds on the SB>1 Defiant ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on Friday awarded Northrop Grumman [NOC] $155 million for the second prototype award for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) Phase IIa effort. Under this award, the company will provide the MDA’s HBTSS an on-orbit prototype demonstration, ...

The Navy has stopped accepting delivery of Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs) after finding a problem with the combining gear on the ships. The government investigated a “material defect with the combining gear” on the Freedom-variant LCSs, Navy spokesman Alan Baribeau told Defense ...