The Senate on Wednesday evening voted near-unanimously in favor of a resolution to ratify Sweden and Finland’s membership to NATO. With the 95 to 1 vote, the U.S. is now the 23rd NATO member to move Sweden and Finland a step closer to becoming the 31st and 32nd member nations of the alliance. The ...
Congress
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved a number of homeland security bills, including a measure to reauthorize and expand authorities for countering-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UAS). The bipartisan bills were approved en bloc by voice vote and must ...
The Senate Appropriations Committee’s fiscal year 2023 defense appropriations bill, released July 28, adds $4 billion over the Navy’s request in shipbuilding. The Navy requested about $17.9 billion in shipbuilding funds for FY ‘23, but the Senate panel recommended funding the account to $31.9 ...
The House on Thursday voted to pass a $280 billion bill package that includes $52.7 billion to bolster domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity and $200 billion for science and technology efforts aimed at improving competition with China, sending the bill to President Biden’s desk for final ...
Senate appropriators have proposed a more than $1.4 billion increase for Army procurement in fiscal year 2023, while including a $350 million cut for the planned buy of Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) headsets. The Senate Appropriations Committee’s (SAC) $792.1 billion defense ...
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday released its plan to spend $850 million on defense-related programs in fiscal year 2023, to include $792.1 billion for the Pentagon, while the proposal received pushed back from the panel’s Republican leadership. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the ...