Congress

House and Senate lawmakers continued to hash out the final versions of the two Pentagon budget bills yesterday in hopes of wrapping up the delayed measures–which dictate the fate of […]

The Marine Corps shielded weapons accounts from cuts during a recent budget review intended to help the Pentagon find savings Congress mandated over the summer, the service’s Nov. 2 military leader […]

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said the U.S. foreign military sales (FMS) it oversees reached $34.8 billion in Fiscal Year 2011, surpassing the $30 billion mark for the fourth […]

Lawmakers who set Pentagon policy met last night to begin reconciling House and Senate defense bills–likely addressing controversial provisions on military detainees and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter–and hope to […]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned yesterday if the Pentagon does not force Lockheed Martin [LMT] to pay for a greater portion of cost overruns with the next F-35 Joint Strike […]

The General Electric [GE]-Rolls-Royce partnership developing the second F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engine said Friday they will abandon the project at the end of the year. “The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter […]

Under the threat of a budget sequestration and a push for general deficit reduction, the Defense Department is entering a period of a defense build down that will have a […]

The Pentagon and defense industry are working to ensure faulty or counterfeit parts do not make their way into the supply chain, officials said Friday, after the Senate passed legislation […]

The Senate adopted an amendment to the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill yesterday that would place a $400,000 cap on the annual salaries earned by government defense contractors. The amendment, […]

The chairman and ranking members of a House intelligence panel on Wednesday week introduced legislation that would improve the federal government’s sharing of classified cyber threat information with approved American […]