Congress

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 […]

The Senate passed the Bipartisan Budget Agreement Wednesday evening in a 64-36 vote, reducing sequestration for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 and allowing the appropriations committees to begin developing a […]

The Senate and House appropriations committees’ staffs will work through the holiday recess to reach an agreement on how to fund the government this year given the new spending cap–$1.012 […]

The Senate on Monday voted 78-16 to confirm Jeh Johnson as the next Secretary of Homeland Security, who has vowed to make his immediate priority be the filling of a […]

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) released his annual Wastebook spending oversight report to highlight “wasteful and low-priority spending totaling nearly $30 billion,” which this year featured numerous military acquisition programs and community outreach […]