Congress

House Armed Services Committee (HASC) member Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) said Friday the United States should move away from using rocket engines not domestically-made in national security space launches. “I believe […]

Several members of the House Homeland Security Committee, including Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), on Thursday introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at reforming acquisition management at the Department of Homeland Security […]

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a bill that would pay for support to Ukraine by taking out money from the Defense Department’s unobligated balances, a move that House Armed […]

The Air Force’s decision to retire its A-10 fleet of close-air support planes was based on minimizing the impact to its overall warfighting capability, and any efforts by Congress to […]

The House Armed Services Committee, saddled with budget caps that do not allow the military to meet all its stated requirements set forth in the Quadrennial Defense Review released last […]

Reacting to concerns from some in Congress this week regarding proposed reductions to flight hours for air domain awareness operations by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) aircraft, Homeland Security Secretary […]

Several lawmakers slammed the Navy for its plans for the aircraft carrier fleet in the fiscal year 2015 budget request, and the Chief of Naval Operations asked for unrequested “seed […]

The recent contract to an Israeli company for off-the-shelf surveillance technology to be deployed in certain areas of Arizona’s border with Mexico is expected to save 75 percent off the […]

Despite being on the job for less than three months, new Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told Congress this week that his department needs to reform its budget process so […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee will examine federal investments in research and development, in light of the president’s budget request that did not boost scientific spending to match the rate of […]