Congress

Ten Democratic senators urged President Barack Obama to cancel the Air Force’s Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon before he leaves office in January, according to a letter obtained by Defense […]

Top defense and energy officials testified Thursday in defense of current U.S. nuclear modernization priorities and dispelled rumors that President Barack Obama is planning to take nonproliferation steps in the […]

House Homeland Security Committee members Jim Langevin (D-R.I.) and John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) on Thursday introduced two bills designed to bolster collaboration between the United States and Israel on cyber security […]

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Thursday that he wants to bring together a lot of his department’s social media capabilities within the organization and is looking to continue […]

The Senate on Wednesday approved a 14-month authorization bill for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that lays out a number of provisions related to the use of unmanned aircraft systems […]

A department-wide program to protect against the unauthorized disclosure of classified information is expected to be fully operational by the end of this year in line with an Obama administration […]

Coast Guard and Navy officials told a House panel on Tuesday that their two services are considering creating a joint program office related to the acquisition of a heavy icebreaker […]

The U.S. Navy and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) offered sharply different assessments of the first Ford-class aircraft carrier (CVN-78) July 12, with the Navy touting the ship’s “significant progress” and […]

The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) said July 7 that the United States needs to be prepared to counter an increasing “diversity” of threats to its national […]

There still isn’t technology available that will automatically detect potential threats inside of shipping containers, and without such a capability manual operators are still needed to identify potential threats, a […]