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The Senate Armed Services Committee’s top Republican and Democrat are calling for the Defense Department to standardize drone pilot training. “We are disturbed that the Department of Defense has no […]

The Senate has failed to approve either a bill to reform the controversial NSA bulk telephone collection program or a straight extension of provisions of the USA Patriot Act, Section […]

The Pentagon’s acquisition process is notoriously sluggish and bureaucratic, but the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) version of the FY ’16 defense authorization bill aims to give it a shot […]

For years, the Navy and Congress have been at odds over the service’s future carrier-based drone, called the Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS). But lawmakers want to ensure […]

Climate change has global consequences including greater instability and more extreme storms that will impact the readiness of United States military forces, requiring them to consider the effects of changing […]

The House Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee on May 19 released its draft of the appropriations bill for fiscal year 2016. While the draft is in line with the House defense […]

The Pentagon’s top weapons buyer has some questions about the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) acquisition reform proposal, specifically on language that would give the service chiefs more authority in […]

With gains to shipbuilding, undersea warfare and its tactical aircraft fleet, the Navy emerged as the major winner in the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) fiscal year 2016 defense authorization […]

A bipartisan group of legislators from both the House and Senate on Thursday urged the Senate to take up and pass the USA FREEDOM Act (H.R. 2048) to reform the […]

The House on May 15 passed a $612 billion defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2016 in a 269-151 vote largely divided along party lines. Forty one Democrats voted in […]