Budget
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Air ForceNDAA Amendment To Allow Base Closures Fails In House
An amendment to delete a ban on base closures from the House version of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) failed Thursday prior to consideration of the bill. The […]
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BudgetHouse Panel Approves $44.3 Billion FY ’18 DHS Spending Bill
The House Appropriations Homeland Security (HAC-HS) subcommittee on Wednesday approved by voice vote its version of the FY ’18 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), providing $44.3 […]
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Homeland Security
House Appropriations Committee Recommends $44.3 Billion DHS Budget
The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) on Tuesday released its proposed $44.3 billion Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget request for fiscal year 2018, including $1.6 billion for the Trump administration’s […]
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SpaceNASA Defends Plan To End Role In DSCOVR Satellite
Acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot last week defended his agency’s proposal to end its participation in the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), saying that 20 other spacecraft on orbit provide the […]
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BudgetSenators Question Nixing Of NASA’s Satellite Servicing Mission
Three members of the Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) have expressed skepticism over NASA’s decision to scrap its Restore-L satellite-servicing mission. Restore-L was slated to launch in 2020 to refuel the […]
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CongressSASC NDAA Markup Increases Defense Base Budget By $29 Billion
The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) approved its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2018 Wednesday night, authorizing $29 billion above the Trump administration’s base […]
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BudgetHouse Appropriators Propose $28.6 Billion ‘Defense Restoration Fund’
The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) is proposing to set up a $28.6 billion “national defense restoration fund” in fiscal year 2018 that the Pentagon could tap for equipment upgrades, technology […]
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BudgetLawmaker Says Defense Funding Boost In Doubt Due To Budget Cap Deadlock
The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee threw cold water on the panel’s plan to boost defense spending by tens of billions of dollars, saying the increase will […]
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BudgetHouse Appropriators Eye Adding Billions To DoD Budget Request
The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) announced late June 25 that its fiscal year 2018 defense appropriations bill would give the Department of Defense $584.2 billion in discretionary funding, $68.1 billion […]
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BudgetHASC Probing Plethora Of DoD IT Systems
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is scrutinizing whether the Department of Defense could achieve efficiencies by reducing the number of information technology systems it uses to write contracts and […]