Budget
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BudgetLawmakers Push To Unblock Development of Ballistic Missile Submarine
Six senators and 33 House members have signed letters urging key congressional appropriators to pass language allowing the successor to the Navy’s Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine to enter its next […]
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BudgetNo NDAA Deal; Congressional Republicans Pursue CR
House and Senate conferees working on the fiscal year 2017 defense authorization bill have not reached a deal to move forward while Republican lawmakers decided to pursue a continuing resolution […]
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Budget
Graham Wants Omnibus Bill, No Continuing Resolution
Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) member Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) won’t vote for another continuing resolution (CR) and wants an omnibus style appropriations package, he told reporters Tuesday. Graham said he […]
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BudgetMcConnell Wants Full Fiscal Year Spending Bill Done By End Of 2016
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wants a full spending bill for the rest of fiscal year 2017 completed by the end of 2016, he told reporters Wednesday. McConnell said […]
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BudgetOCO Supplemental Includes Extra $815 Million For U.S. Helicopters
The White House’s Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) request submitted late Thursday includes a business opportunity for helicopter manufacturers as it would provide an extra $815 million to help Afghanistan transition […]
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BudgetAnalyst Potentially Sees More Fixed Price Contracts Under Trump
Though prime contractor stocks received a boost Wednesday following the election of Donald Trump as the next United States president, one analyst believes more fixed price contracts could be looming […]
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BudgetDoD Asking For OCO Increase, Undecided On Value
FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo.–The Defense Department will ask Congress for additional wartime spending, but leadership hasn’t decided how much more to request, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday. Carter told […]
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ArmyLandmark Ruling Gives Palantir Second Shot At Providing Army’s Data Management System
The Army on Monday lost a months-long court battle with Palantir, giving the data-mining company another shot at the program to build the service’s battlefield data management system. The ruling […]
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Budget
Obama Signs Continuing Resolution Into Law
The federal government will keep the lights on through Dec. 9 as President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law a short term Continuing Resolution (CR) that extends fiscal year […]
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BudgetCarter Warns Short-Term CR Would Harm European Reassurance Initiative
Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned Thursday that a short-term continuing resolution (CR) would hurt the Defense Department’s European Reassurance Initiative (ERI), of which the Pentagon requested a nearly four-fold increase […]