Congress

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. […]

The House will consider legislation next week that could impact the way defense contracts are awarded. In the wee hours of the morning on Thursday the House Armed Services Committee […]

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is calling for changes to ship, vehicle and missile-defense plans, while rejecting a move to limit F-35 Joint Strike Fighter funding, in the fiscal […]