Congress

The White House on Tuesday urged “swift passage” of the new bipartisan three-month stopgap funding bill, as Congress faces a government shutdown deadline looming in a week. Speaker Mike Johnson […]

Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee, heavily criticized Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro about significant cost overruns and delays in submarine and ship […]

Japan is planning an up to $3 billion satellite constellation aimed at providing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and other images to deter China, but U.S. companies looking to get into […]

The Pentagon’s supply of small drones for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), strike, and other missions is far short of the need, an executive at Skydio, told a House Armed […]

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro recently sent congressional appropriations leaders a letter detailing the downsides for the Department of the Navy in a potential six-month Continuing Resolution (CR) […]

House and Senate appropriators are advising cutting the U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC)’s Missile Warning/Missile Tracking Epoch 1 program for Medium Earth Orbit (MEO)–also known as Missile Track […]

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s airland panel, and Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) have formed the Senate Defense Modernization Caucus as a counterpart to the […]

House Republicans on Wednesday scrapped plans for a vote on their sixth-month continuing resolution proposal amid mounting opposition, with the lower chamber’s top Democratic appropriator calling for bipartisan negotiation on […]

The U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (USSF SSC) said that it is using a $40 million congressional add for Tactical, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Tracking (TacSRT) in fiscal 2024 to […]

A group of senior House Republicans on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to remove remaining restrictions on Ukraine’s use of U.S.-provided long-range weapons, specifically Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] ATACMS missiles, to […]