Congress

A handful of lawmakers are pushing back against the Pentagon’s plans to realign the long-standing Office of Net Assessment under the undersecretary of defense for policy, proposing a bill to […]

Senate Armed Services Committee member Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) pitched a plan Wednesday to overturn cuts to military retirees’ pensions without dipping into any other accounts in the defense budget. Ayotte […]

The Obama administration’s nominee to be the watchdog within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) received bipartisan support Wednesday from the Senate panel that will vote on his confirmation and […]

Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.), ranking member of the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee, said Wednesday he would retire at the end of this congressional term. “My family […]

The defense portion of the fiscal year 2014 spending bill is complete, along with six or seven other of the bill’s 12 sections, while the remaining sections are still under […]

The Coast Guard is expected to upgrade all of the C-27J multi-role aircraft it receives from the Air Force to help it meet various mission needs, the aircraft’s manufacturer Alenia […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has unveiled the locations of planned test sites for integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into the national airspace, selecting six out of more than two dozen […]

The Defense Department finally has its authorization bill for fiscal year 2014, even if it came about in an unusual fashion: the House of Representatives had to pass two distinct […]

With a budget and a defense authorization bill finally passed by Congress during the last week of its 2013 session, House and Senate appropriators can now turn their attention to […]

The Pentagon’s top leaders on Thursday welcomed final congressional passage of a budget law that reduces the impact of sequestration for fiscals 2014 and 2015, but cautioned that the relief […]