Congress

Four House Armed Services Committee (HASC) members wrote the White House Office of Management and Budget supporting the cost and stability benefits of incremental funding for Virginia-class submarines. In a […]

LAS VEGAS–Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into civilian airspace poses "significant challenges" but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is committed to ensuring it is done so safely through pilot training […]

NASA chose three aerospace companies to continue working over the next two years on commercial spaceships intended to carry astronauts to the International Space Station by 2016. The space agency awarded Boeing’s […]

Following what amounted to a defeat yesterday of his comprehensive cyber security bill, Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I/D-Conn.) called on the opponents of the measure to say where they are willing […]

A Senate panel approved a $511 billion defense budget yesterday that adds funds for ships, tanks and aircraft to the Pentagon’s budget proposal while supporting a controversial missile-defense program supported […]

The Senate yesterday continued discussion on comprehensive cyber security legislation, although by our deadline last evening no agreement had been reached on a package of amendments to the bill, which […]

Administration officials provided slightly more insight yesterday into how potential across-the-board budget cuts would be administered at the Pentagon and impact major weapons programs. Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and […]

The Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee (SAC-D) yesterday added $130 million to President Barack Obama’s budget for industrial-base initiatives while reducing his proposed level of Pentagon funding by $100 million. During yesterday’s […]

Congressional leaders yesterday agreed on a continuing resolution (CR) to fund the first six months of fiscal year 2013 at levels set in the Budget Control Act of 2011. The House […]

Gen. Keith Alexander, the chief of the United States Cyber Command, yesterday called for the Senate to pass comprehensive bipartisan cyber security legislation this week that the chamber began discussing […]