Congress

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has planned for various risks to its new technology plan for better securing the nation’s southwest border and so far actual costs are likely to […]

Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and an outspoken critic of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), yesterday said his committee and another will […]

The House is poised to take up a government-funding plan tomorrow that would temporarily cover the Pentagon for the next month and also deal NASA a full-blown budget that is […]

The Senate could debate the delayed Pentagon policy bill as soon as this week, after the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) revised the legislation yesterday by cutting $21 billion in funding […]

Republican presidential candidates touched briefly on Pentagon weapons-buying–including fixed-price contracts and Navy shipbuilding–during their Saturday night debate. Some observers, though,want to hear more from the GOP field on defense budgeting. […]

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned yesterday that if the Pentagon receives the largest-possible budget cuts, weapon programs including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the next-generation bomber, the Littoral Combat Ship, […]

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called on Feb. 10 for the Pentagon to unite behind a strategic review intended to determine where $450 billion in budget cuts will be made, which he […]

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) joined a growing number of lawmakers yesterday who have pledged to fight automatic Pentagon budget cuts slated to be made if a deficit panel and Congress […]

A Senate panel chairman said yesterday he will offer legislative proposals intended to thwart counterfeit parts from entering the defense supply chain, including one requiring contractors pay for fake electronics […]

The Obama administration unveiled yesterday proposals for making it easier for U.S. companies to export some military aircraft equipment. A defense-industry group hailed the publishing of the proposed export rule changes, […]