Congress

Pentagon budget writers in the House want to spare the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program from major changes, proposing only modest cuts to the program and including no commentary on […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has programs in place to report and track security breaches at the nation’s airport but lacks a comprehensive program to gather information about all of […]

The White House threated yesterday to veto the Pentagon policy bill the House is slated to start debating today, saying it adds too much funding to the president’s proposal and […]

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 […]