Congress

By Calvin Biesecker President Barack Obama yesterday announced his intention to nominate Robert Harding, a former Army general, to be the next chief of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), which […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy is kicking off a shipbuilding industrial base study to review the capabilities and capacities at U.S. shipyards to better inform the service as it crafts […]

By Emelie Rutherford Faced with senators frustrated by reports of delays in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s initial operational capability (IOC), Air Force leaders said yesterday their service may not […]

By Geoff Fein As the Navy and the shipbuilding industry prepare to move toward producing two Virginia-class submarines per year, all eyes are looking ahead to the next-generation ballistic missile […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate confirm the nominations of six senior Pentagon officials last night after senators who blocked their final approval released their holds. The nominees, selected by President […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Army is "moving rapidly" to develop a V-shaped hull kit for the Stryker fleet to make the vehicles more resistant to explosives in Afghanistan, the service’s […]

By Emelie Rutherford With Northrop Grumman [NOC] expected to announce soon if it will compete for the Air Force tanker contract, congressional and defense officials are sizing up what would […]

By Emelie Rutherford Massachusetts’ new Republican senator, Scott Brown, has snagged coveted seats on the powerful Armed Services, Homeland Security, and Veterans Affairs committees, his office said yesterday. Brown, a […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) budget request for the Coast Guard in FY ’11, which calls for shedding some older assets to build new cutters and […]

By Geoff Fein The General Dynamics [GD] variant of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) uses less fuel per hour during higher rates of speed than the Lockheed Martin [LMT] vessel, […]