Congress

A key Senate committee called for cutting the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2012 defense budget request by $26 billion yesterday, as the end of the fiscal year neared and a deficit […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) yesterday said it has awarded L-3 Communications [LLL] a $44.8 million contract to supply it with 300 new whole body imaging machines equipped with threat […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) plans to weigh a spending plan today that would cut the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) budget request, for items including Coast Guard ships, less […]

Industry groups are calling on President Barack Obama to protect aerospace and defense positions as he prepares a job-generating plan and lawmakers prepare to weigh more Pentagon budget cuts. The Aerospace […]

Two powerful congressional committees will start their work crafting the Pentagon’s budget next week. The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC)–the only of the four panels that writes the defense budget that […]

Advocates of creating a combined budget for the Defense and State Departments have mixed reaction to a definition, in the new deficit-cutting law, of “security” spending that includes multiple defense-related […]

There are nine major recommendations made by the 9/11 Commission that remain unfinished, leaving the United States less safe than it could, or should, be, say the former heads of […]

A report set to be unveiled today on waste in wartime contracting is being used by a prominent lawmaker as an argument in favor of cutting defense spending during the […]

Hawkish House members who resisted Pentagon spending reductions in the new deficit-cutting law are using a new report on China’s increasing military might to bolster their stance against additional sizable military […]

The federal government has made progress in implementing previous recommendations to improve the security of the nation’s maritime-based energy infrastructure but additional actions are necessary, according to an official with […]