Congress

Chuck Hagel’s views on defense spending should not be a major issue during Senate deliberations on whether to confirm him as the next defense secretary, key senators said yesterday. Since […]

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) called for Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to share the military’s plans for potential “sequestration” cuts, slamming him for just recently starting such planning while blaming Congress for […]

Naval shipbuilders lost some powerful congressional advocates in recent years. So House lawmakers are trying to boost support for ship companies and programs in Congress through steps like taking new […]

 A lawmaker backing plans to restore a nuclear submarine to the Navy’s budget said current legislation on Capitol Hill would allow the service to add the vessel through a somewhat-unorthodox […]

The head of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) said yesterday he wished Pentagon brass didn’t wait “until the midnight hour” to issue a stark warning that pending budget cuts […]

General Dynamics [GD] yesterday said in concert with the Army and the union, it plans to furlough 82 workers on the tank line at the Lima Army Tank plant in […]

Lawmakers who dictate defense spending said yesterday they are grappling with how to proceed with the Pentagon budget for the end of this year and next year as Congress and […]

Doug Roach, a longtime House Armed Services Committee (HASC) staffer who kept weapons-program officials on their toes, died last Friday in Washington. He was 70. Roach, the staff lead for […]

A key House lawmaker wants the White House to provide more clarity on when it will unveil its next Pentagon budget, which is delayed amid the uncertainty about possible “sequestration” […]

The Border Patrol has developed interim measures to assess progress in securing the nation’s land borders between ports of entry but has not established more comprehensive performance metrics, the Government […]