Budget

Draft defense policy bill language released in the House this week contains a provision that would allow service secretaries to highlight a select number of small business research efforts they […]

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) this week led a bipartisan group of senators in a letter requesting Senate appropriators fund two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSNs) in the fiscal year 2025 budget. […]

House authorizers’ draft FY 2025 defense authorization bill includes several strings for the Navy reducing certain forces or fleet numbers, including restrictions on more than two cruiser retirements. The draft […]

House authorizers hope to push the Navy to develop a plan to have the Navy be able to re-arm the surface fleet at sea within three years in their draft […]

Given the widespread use of small and medium-size drones on the battlefield, and the systems needed to counter these unmanned aircraft, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is proposing the […]

The Senate’s top defense appropriator said the Pentagon will require a “bigger number” for its fiscal year 2025 budget topline than the nearly $850 billion requested, cautioning the imposed one […]

A top member of the House Armed Services Seapower subcommittee rallied 120 lawmakers to sign on to a letter pushing appropriators to fund two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSNs) in the […]

The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces subcommittee this week led a push against the Navy’s 2025 budget request seeking only one attack submarine (SSN) […]

The Army is leading a study with Air Force participation to examine the protection of air bases from a wide rang of threats, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said on […]

The new chairman of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hopes to mark up the Department of Homeland Security’s $60.8 billion fiscal year 2025 budget request by the end of […]