Congress

The fiscal year 2014 defense authorization bill awaiting final passage in Congress would require the Defense Department to develop a strategy for multi-year procurement of commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) services […]

A new defense authorization bill that reflected both House and Senate bill language from earlier in the year passed the House of Representatives Thursday evening in an overwhelming 350-69 vote. […]

If Congress passes the Bipartisan Budget Agreement that was rolled out earlier this week, defense appropriators are ready to pounce on finishing a line-by-line spending bill by Jan. 15 to […]

Amid an ongoing investigation by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General’s office into allegations of misconduct by the nominee for the deputy secretary of the department, Democrats on a […]

An agreement between the House and Senate Armed Services Committees this week directs the Air Force to transfer 14 excess C-27J cargo aircraft to the Coast Guard has part of […]

The defense policy bill for fiscal 2014 sitting before Congress proposes placing additional oversight on the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program and requires the Pentagon to assess its capabilities […]

The House and Senate armed services committees reached an agreement on writing a new defense authorization bill that should get a vote in the House this week and the Senate […]

The House yesterday overwhelmingly approved several bills aimed at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), including legislation that calls for the agency to develop a multi-year strategy for acquiring security related […]

The Senate has just a one-week window to pass a defense authorization bill and confer with the House if lawmakers are to get the bill signed into law by the […]