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A special House panel will propose a series of recommendations by the end of next week for helping smaller companies compete for Pentagon contracts, its members said yesterday. The House […]

New legislation that been introduced in the House and Senate the past two months aimed at codifying the Department of Homeland Security’s responsibilities for working with the private sector and […]

Army leaders are hoping foreign sales and private partnerships will help military vehicle makers continue production during years the Pentagon does not plan to buy tanks and trucks from them. […]

A group of Republican senators who are upset with some of the provisions in a cyber security bill introduced this week and with how it was crafted and proceeding through […]

Despite a stated mission need for eight new high-endurance cutters, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) FY ’13 budget request excludes funding for the final two National Security Cutters (NSC). […]

The Pentagon’s plan to spend money to support defense firms as weapons buying shrinks will be wide-reaching, the defense secretary said yesterday about the still-nebulous industrial effort. Secretary Leon Panetta […]

Following the introduction of comprehensive cyber security legislation in the Senate on Tuesday, key Republican Senators voiced concerns that the bill is lacking in substance and is being rushed through […]

As Pentagon leaders defended their budget that ignores a potential half trillion dollar cut in spending reductions, a key senator argued the administration’s fiscal year 2013 proposal renders those cuts moot. […]

A comprehensive cyber security bill was introduced in the Senate yesterday that would require the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to assess risks and vulnerabilities to the nation’s critical infrastructure […]

In support of administration priorities, the fiscal year 2013 budget request for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is $7.7 billion, down from $8.4 billion in FY ’12, with funding reductions […]