Congress

While there are rumblings in the House about building a missile-defense site on the U.S. East Coast, lead senators said the issue is far from pressing right now. House Armed […]

A senior senator said he will block the confirmation of Pentagon civilian nominees, including of Frank Kendall to be defense acquisition chief, until the Defense Department addresses what he says […]

The House passed a budget blueprint yesterday that would deal the Pentagon several billion dollars more than the Obama administration proposed, possibly giving House lawmakers more room to pitch increases to […]

The cost to develop, procure, operate and maintain a next-generation system currently being developed to automatically detect and alert for harmful biological threats in the environment is $5.7 billion, according […]

Failing to build Virginia-class (SSN-774) subs at a rate of two annually jeopardizes the Navy’s goal of sustaining an attack submarine fleet of 48 vessels over the long run, the […]

Amid a decline in airline passenger travel in the United States the past few years there has been an increase in the number of security officers employed by the Transportation […]

The heads of a NASA budget-writing panel questioned yesterday the space agency’s subsidization of four private companies that are developing systems to carry astronauts to the International Space Station. While the […]

In some airports where the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has deployed machines that peer beneath a person’s clothing to scan for threats, the agency has hardly used the body imagers […]

Two Republican congresswoman yesterday introduced cyber security legislation that is based on a similar bill introduced in the Senate by eight Republicans earlier this month that promotes more sharing of […]

A lawmaker who helps craft the Pentagon budget called yesterday for boosting national missile defense spending and implanting missile interceptors on the East Coast of the United States. House Armed […]