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Congress moved Tuesday to relax stringent commercial satellite export control laws by returning to the president the authority to determine appropriate requirements after years of military-level oversight. The compromise fiscal […]

Congress is putting the final touches on legislation that would limit the Pentagon’s ability to award cost-type contracts to defense companies. The measure, in the final House-Senate defense authorization bill […]

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said she expects to succeed the late Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) as chair of the powerful budget-dictation Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC). “It’s an honor and a […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) last Friday said it plans to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to examine the health effects of backscatter X-ray-based Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) […]

Congress’ final defense policy bill pushes back on Pentagon plans to fund a controversial tri-nation missile-defense program and retire aircraft, while authorizing it to continue biofuel development, study an additional […]

Lawmakers could unveil today the Pentagon policy bill they will send to President Barack Obama, with hopes he won’t follow through with previous threats to veto the long-delayed legislation. A […]

The loss of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC), will undoubtedly impact Congress’ oversight of the Pentagon’s budget, observers said. Inouye, a World War […]

A House committee chairman said Congress still could pass cybersecurity legislation before year’s end, calling on lawmakers to advance a proposal to spur the government and private sector to share […]

The House on Wednesday passed by voice vote two homeland security bills, one that gives the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) more leeway on whether to re-screen checked baggage entering the […]

The leadership of key defense panels took shape yesterday, when a new roster of House Armed Services subcommittee chairmen was announced and the head of a powerful budget panel was […]