Congress
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CongressAmos: Marines Lack Ships To Fulfill Shift To Asia-Pacific
The Marine Corps’ top officer said yesterday his service does not have all the ships it needs to in the Asia-Pacific region and, because of scant shipbuilding dollars, may be […]
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CongressUAS Need Further Work For Integration Into National Airspace, GAO Says
Obstacles remain to integrating the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the national airspace (NAS) although some progress has been made the past few years, the Government Accountability Office […]
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CongressDoD Budget Chief Urges Congress To Smooth Out Process
The Pentagon’s budget chief urged lawmakers Friday to “return to an orderly budget process” and act to stave off sequestration, saying recent years of budget turmoil on Capitol Hill have […]
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CongressGOP Slams Obama Sequestration Report With Scant Details
The White House unveiled a report on potential “sequestration” budget cuts last Friday that says Pentagon accounts would be slashed by 9.4 percent but offers no details on how specific […]
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CongressTemporary Budget Generous To DoD
The Pentagon is poised to run under a temporary six-month budget that boosts its funding above levels proposed by the House, Senate, and White House. The House passed a continuing […]
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CongressCarrier Overhauls Jeopardized By Budget Gridlock on Capitol Hill
The refueling and overhaul work on a Navy aircraft carrier would be in jeopardy unless changes are made to a stopgap spending measure for the first six months of fiscal […]
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CongressHouse Report Urges TSA To Expand Private Sector In Airport Screening, Risk-based Initiatives
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should be relying more on the expertise of the private sector in modernizing passenger checkpoint screening at airports as well as for conducting security screening […]
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CongressCongress Addressing Temporary Budget, Sequestration
Congress is back at work, weighing a temporary federal budget as well as alternatives to so-called sequestration budget cuts yesterday, when Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney also warned against cutting […]
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ArmyPersistent Surveillance JLENS Demos Ability To Detect, Track, Swarming Boats
Raytheon’s [RTN] Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) has demonstrated its capability to detect and track swarming boats hundreds of miles away in test scenarios […]
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Business/FinancialDefense Firms Largely Noncommittal On WARN Notices
Some of the nation’s largest military contractors told lawmakers they are struggling to determine if they should issue layoff warnings to employees in advance of potential across-the-board Pentagon budget cuts […]