Congress

As airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIL) intensify, President Barack Obama reiterated his strategy to combat the brutal extremist group by training local forces to fight […]

Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) on Monday sent a letter to the Inspector General of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) asking him to conduct another investigation of its data system […]

The Defense Department may have its most leverage to purchase additional Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines since Congress banned future use of engine, following Sunday’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) Falcon […]

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and 17 Republican members of Congress sent a letter to President Obama on Monday requesting the removal of the OPM […]

A key lawmaker Friday floated the idea of paying United Launch Alliance (ULA) to keep its Delta IV rocket available for future national security space launches, in contrast to the […]

Air Force officials and industry executives pleaded with a House Armed Services subcommittee today to extend the 2019 deadline for finding a replacement to the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine that […]

If existing nuclear forces are not modernized, the U.S. will lose its existing deterrent capabilities in the 2020s and 2030s, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official said Thursday.  “The choice that […]

The House and Senate kicked off the reconciliation process for the fiscal year 2016 defense authorization bill today. This morning, the Senate struck a section of the National Defense Authorization […]

A key lawmaker said Wednesday he’s concerned that the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is restricting the role of the Pentagon’s internal think tank, the Office of Net […]

Ongoing deployments of technologies designed to detect and prevent intrusions of cyber threats against government networks and other systems designed to monitor for computer viruses inside these networks go hand-in-hand […]