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The top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) called last week for a balanced approach to China as it increases its military might, saying U.S. weaponry should be […]

The Coast Guard on Friday said it has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] a $482 million contract to construct the fifth Legend-class National Security Cutter (NSC), to be named James. […]

As the new congressional committee charged with finding up to $1.5 trillion in additional federal budget cuts met yesterday, a Republican member said he will leave the bipartisan panel if […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has made progress in strengthening its mission functions the past eight years as embodied in the issuance of strategic and operational plans, developing policies […]

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 […]