Congress

When the new Republican-majority Senate comes to Washington in January, one of its early jobs will be to address the fiscal year 2016 budget–when, under current law, sequestration will return […]

Nearly all the House Armed Services Committee members running for reelection won this week, but a convergence of factors could still lead the committee to take on a very different […]

The four Senate and House defense oversight committees will look very different when the new Congress is seated in January, after Republicans took control of the Senate and gained more […]

With just days until the 2014 midterm election, 10 Senate races are still considered tossups by prominent analysts–and all but one seat have ties to the defense spending and policy […]

House Homeland Security Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) released a Blueprint for Southern Border Security on Monday, outlining a six-point plan for the Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department […]

Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) released a compendium of 31 acquisition reform essays from leading defense experts–from the Defense Department, the military services, industry and academia–as congressional committees […]

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) said he’s worried Congress won’t be able to pass its cyber intelligence-sharing bill before the end of the year, raising the possibility […]

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) will retire at the end of this year, and even if Congress won’t fix sequestration while he’s still around, he won’t leave […]

The Senate last Thursday confirmed by voice vote Chip Fulghum as chief financial officer (CFO) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), leaving just two senior level nominees awaiting confirmation […]

As the House and Senate armed services committees wade deeper into their acquisition reform effort, they intend to take a close look at not just the contracting officers and program […]