After a marathon markup session that began Tuesday morning and ended early Wednesday morning, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a budget reconciliation bill that includes $1.1 billion for two Coast Guard icebreaker programs, the new polar security cutter (PSC) and a ...

The House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday voted along partisan lines to add more than $1 billion in new funding for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) over the next 10 years as part of a $3.5 trillion catch-all spending plan put together by House and Senate ...

A group of Democratic senators are urging that more than $6 billion in unspent funds for U.S. support to the Afghan security forces be reallocated for humanitarian purposes rather than back into the defense budget. Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) led a letter sent Tuesday to President Biden specifically ...

A pair of lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee secured nearly a dozen amendments in the panel’s version of the next defense policy bill intended to further the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence adoption, including assessing new contracting mechanisms and establishing readiness goals. ...

The House Armed Services Committee adopted a new “Buy American” provision to its version of the next defense policy bill that would incrementally increase the required percentage of U.S-made parts for major acquisition programs over the next eight years. Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.), chair of ...

The House Armed Services Committee’s (HASC) fiscal 2022 defense authorization bill directs the U.S. Air Force and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to inform the committee of radars’ ability to detect low-flying hypersonic cruise missiles and any needed upgrades. “The committee is ...