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The House on Tuesday evening voted to pass the final conferenced version of the $741 billion fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act with a veto-proof majority, as the White […]

House Democrats on Tuesday introduced a new one-week stopgap funding bill to keep the government open through Dec. 18, as lawmakers aim for additional time to pass a larger omnibus […]

The final version of the 2021 defense policy bill puts the brakes on funding a wider layered missile defense system without additional reports and cuts Aegis funds requested for the […]

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said Monday he would like to see Michèle Flournoy selected as president-elect Joe Biden’s defense secretary, calling her “hands down the best […]

The leaders of the House Armed Services Committee told reporters Monday they are both confident Congress will vote to override the president’s potential veto of the next defense policy bill. […]

The final version of the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act calls for reducing the Army’s future augmented reality headset program by $230 million and calls for funding additional […]

The $741 billion final version of the next defense policy bill includes authorizing 14 additional F-35s, funding the build of two Virginia-class submarines and calling for billions to establish a […]

The final proposed defense authorization bill would establish a National Cyber Director (NCD) within the Executive Office of the President, a key recommendation of a cyberspace commission. The fiscal year […]

A version of the fiery interagency and inter-branch tug of war that produced this year’s controversial civilian nuclear weapons budget would be essentially legalized, if a compromise 2021 defense authorization […]

House Republicans on Thursday voted to select Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) as the next ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee, succeeding Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas).  Rogers, who is […]