Congress

The Pentagon’s acquisition chief, Frank Kendall, said Thursday the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program is on track to ramp up production as planned in in two years “unless there is […]

The House began debating a slew of amendments to the Pentagon policy bill Thursday, clashing over funding for items including aircraft carriers. Shortly after the House kicked off floor debate […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) approved a defense policy bill Thursday that supports the Pentagon’s request for buying F-35 Joint Strike Fighters and Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs), while scaling […]

The House Appropriations Committee (HAC) approved a $512.5 billion defense appropriations bill Wednesday that trims $3.4 billion from the Pentagon’s proposed budget, faces opposition from the White House, and cuts […]

During the past year the FBI has changed its tactics in conducting cyber operations from a more passive approach that entails the surveillance of intruders inside of networks being attacked […]

A Senate panel wants to authorize the Pentagon to spend nearly all of the funding it requested in fiscal year 2014 for Army and Air Force weapons programs and naval […]

A senior senator is researching ways to reform Pentagon weapons buying and plans to offer legislation intended to build up the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009. Sen. Richard […]

Lawmakers are expected to seek restrictions on the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program during multiple defense debates in Congress this week. Recent congressional concerns about the program to build […]

The House yesterday approved a $38.9 billion FY ’14 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill (H.R. 2217) largely along partisan lines as most Democrats withdrew their support for the measure following passage […]

Bipartisan legislation was introduced in Congress yesterday seeking to raise the stakes for foreign actors engaging in cyber espionage against the United States. The Cyber Economic Espionage Accountability Act (H.R. […]