Congress

The Senate is scheduled to take up a temporary seven-week budget for the Pentagon and federal government today that would kick in on Saturday, though the measure’s fate is uncertain. […]

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told lawmakers yesterday he will execute budget cuts “strategically,” while warning additional defense reductions that could come if congressional negotiations fail would amount to “shooting ourselves […]

A think tank is proposing that Pentagon choose up to seven parts of the U.S. defense-industrial base to sustain and then to “ruthlessly” slough off the remaining aspects. The non-partisan Center […]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee yesterday completed its markup of an authorization bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that aims to improve the department’s acquisition […]

The House rejected last night a temporary seven-week federal budget for the new fiscal year that would cut Pentagon spending below current levels. Because Congress has passed none of the 12 federal […]

  The Senate Appropriations Committee recommends denying a $73.9 million fiscal year 2012 budget request for a Technology Development Contract for the Army’s Armed Scout Helicopter.   In its report […]

NASA unveiled this week its plans to pay companies $1.6 billion to develop commercial services to carry astronauts to low-Earth orbit. The space agency released a draft request for proposals […]

A new House panel focused on helping companies contract with the Pentagon during its inaugural hearing yesterday examined risks the industry faces. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.), chairman of the House […]

Government auditors said the debate over continuing the ill-fated F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s (JSF) alternate engine would be better informed if the Pentagon updated its cost assessments. A recently completed […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) approved yesterday a defense spending plan that would freeze the Pentagon’s budget and cut programs including the Army’s Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) and missile-defense interceptors. […]