Congress

By Emelie Rutherford The House is expected to vote tonight on the last-minute federal budget Democrats and Republicans agreed to late last week, a massive plan unveiled early yesterday morning […]

By Emelie Rutherford NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.–Senior Marine Corps brass expect to be "personally and decisively engaged" with additional weapon-system programs while working within increasingly austere budgets, the service’s No. 2 […]

By Emelie Rutherford Congressional leaders announced late last Friday they reached a deal that would prevent the federal government from shutting down that night at midnight, after they agreed to […]

By Emelie Rutherford Facing the possibility of a government shutdown tomorrow, a top Pentagon official provided details yesterday on how the military workforce would operate without a budget. Deputy Defense […]

By Calvin Biesecker The head of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) division that assesses whether foreign airports and other international aviation-related entities are complying with baseline international security standards told […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Behavior Detection Officers (BDO) do a better job at identifying high risk travelers than random screening measures, an official with the Department […]

By Calvin Biesecker The chairman of a House panel that oversees the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) yesterday said that the agency’s failure to provide a representative to testify at a […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Army has Stryker vehicles redesigned with double-V-shaped hulls ready in South Carolina to be shipped to troops in Afghanistan, service officials told a Senate panel yesterday. […]

By Emelie Rutherford With a federal government shutdown looming after Friday, House Republicans are facing significant opposition to their plan to fund the Pentagon for the rest of fiscal year […]

By Emelie Rutherford The head of a House panel is expressing concern about levels of funding for ground-based interceptors (GBIs) that are part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system for […]