Congress

A Senate panel approved yesterday President Barack Obama’s nomination of Pentagon officials including Frank Kendall to be defense acquisition chief after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) dropped his objections. The Senate […]

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle blasted planned “sequestration” cuts to the defense budget yesterday but remained at odds over how to prevent them. A week after the GOP-led […]

A key House panel approved plans to restore a submarine the Navy cut from its budget but is refusing to back a special funding setup the service said it needs […]

House Republicans passed ill-fated legislation yesterday that is intended to prevent the first year of so-called sequestration cuts to the defense budget. The chamber’s approval of the Sequester Replacement Reconciliation […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has thousands of pieces of security equipment worth nearly $200 million stored in a warehouse in Texas, most of it there for at least six […]

The House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee yesterday approved by voice vote a $39.1 billion discretionary budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in FY ’13, $393 million less than […]

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is calling for pressuring the Pentagon to firm up usage dates for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in the defense policy legislation it passed via […]

The House Appropriations Committee yesterday released its proposed markup of the FY ’13 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) budget, showing plans to trim $393 million from the request with the […]

A key House panel approved a defense budget yesterday that gives the Pentagon funding it did not request to prevent a temporary shutdown of three vehicles’ production lines, a move […]

Two key House panels are proposing to add funding to the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2013 budget this week for equipment including a submarine, Navy cruisers, and unmanned aircraft. The House […]