Congress

Reprogramming Rundown. The Pentagon’s $5 billion omnibus reprogramming request, dated June 30 and now before Congress, seeks to shift money for varied vehicle efforts including $51 million for 14 more […]

The House worked through proposed defense budget amendments yesterday related to war spending and Libya, yet shied away from substantive debate on weapon systems. The chamber continued debating the $530 […]

The House Appropriations Committee yesterday released a draft mark-up of the FY ’12 budget for NASA that proposes to slash the agency’s request by $1.9 billion, or 10 percent, to […]

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is warning that the Pentagon’s budget plans would cost $25 billion more than estimated in five years and $31 billion more in 10 years. The […]

Lawmakers and the defense industry are clashing over the handling of company information in databases the Pentagon refers to when making contract decisions. The use of such data repositories has […]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved a three-year extension of regulations that enable the Department of Homeland Security to oversee compliance by high-risk chemical facilities […]

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) are directing the Navy to look into standing up a new development mechanism to further improve the sea service’s efforts to stand […]

The four firms under contract with NASA to help develop a commercial space transportation industry have met initial milestones for their crew-transport systems as of this month, the space agency […]

As Congress and the White House remain gridlocked over budget negotiations, President Barack Obama suggested yesterday that further Pentagon budget cuts are needed beyond the $400 billion he already recommended. […]

Lawmakers and the defense industry want to tweak a new law intended to grant the Pentagon rights to technical data underlying weapons programs so multiple companies can build the systems. […]