Congress

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 Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon "continues to explore" entering into a multi-year contract with Boeing [BA] for F/A-18 fighter jets, but was not able to make a decision by yesterday’s […]

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, […]

By Emelie Rutherford Congress is expected to start considering in mid-April President Barack Obama’s $33 billion request for supplemental war funding for the current fiscal year, which is expected to […]

By Geoff Fein Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) last week questioned the top leadership of the Navy as to whether the evaluation criteria being used to select a winner in the […]

By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers vexed by President Barack Obama’s attempt to cancel the Constellation moon-exploration program grilled NASA’s leader yesterday about its plan to help commercial companies build human-spaceflight vehicles. […]

By Calvin Biesecker Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano yesterday appeared to back off further from a congressional mandate that 100 percent of sea-going cargo bound for the United States first […]

By Emelie Rutherford Military officials sought to alleviate congressional concerns yesterday about the Pentagon relying in the future on one main contractor for tactical aircraft, pointing to planning for future […]

By Calvin Biesecker A $19 million planned reduction in FY ’11 for cyber security spending stems from new organizational efficiencies on managing cyber within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) […]