Air Force

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate sent the $636.3 billion defense appropriations bill to President Barack Obama on Saturday, shortly after a temporary Pentagon arrangement expired. Early on Saturday, during the […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate was prepared to pass a $636.3 billion defense spending bill for fiscal year 2010 last night, as lawmakers waited to learn if the actual vote […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House is poised to debate this week the defense appropriations bill, which House and Senate lawmakers finalized in public without convening an official conference committee. The […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House is expected to pass the long-delayed Pentagon spending bill this week after House and Senate appropriators met last Friday to hash out differences between different […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House’s lead defense budget writer plans to talk to the Pentagon acquisition chief today about ensuring there is an industry competition to build the Air Force […]

By Emelie Rutherford Northrop Grumman [NOC] told the Pentagon yesterday it cannot compete for the Air Force tanker contract under the contest’s current terms, spurring the company’s congressional backers to […]

By Emelie Rutherford As Boeing [BA] backers in Congress push the Pentagon to factor into the competition for the Air Force tanker contract European government support for a competitor, they […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon’s top technologist said yesterday he has "concern" about the loss of U.S. industrial base expertise in areas including armor. "We’re going through that analysis now […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House’s lead defense appropriator said yesterday industry and congressional squabbling over the Air Force’s latest solicitation for aerial-refueling tankers proves the best way to dodge further […]

By Emelie Rutherford The military’s top officer predicted yesterday the Pentagon will seek supplemental war funding this fiscal year, reinforcing lawmakers’ stance that the Bush administration practice of covering wartime […]