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By Emelie Rutherford With temporary Defense Department spending set to expire Dec. 18, House lawmakers could potentially pass the delayed FY ’10 defense appropriations bill next week. If the Pentagon […]

By Emelie Rutherford As government auditors prepare to rule in the coming days on whether the Army improperly awarded a truck contract to Oshkosh Corp. [OSK], lawmakers continue to weigh […]

By Emelie Rutherford Defense Secretary Robert Gates told House lawmakers yesterday the Pentagon will likely buy more than 3,000 additional mine-resistant trucks for the additional troops being sent to Afghanistan. […]

By Geoff Fein The cost for the recently awarded contracts for the third and fourth Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) was more than $430 million per ship–however missing from that number […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House’s lead defense budget writer plans to talk to the Pentagon acquisition chief today about ensuring there is an industry competition to build the Air Force […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will not meet a congressionally-imposed deadline in 2012 that 100 percent of all sea containers bound for the United States be […]

By Emelie Rutherford Northrop Grumman [NOC] told the Pentagon yesterday it cannot compete for the Air Force tanker contract under the contest’s current terms, spurring the company’s congressional backers to […]

By Emelie Rutherford While President Barack Obama plans to officially announce tonight plans for sending more troops to Afghanistan, he already has given orders for the deployments to commence as […]

By Emelie Rutherford While the Navy is committed to building systems with open architecture, it must weigh the cost of and operational need for retrofitting existing equipment to have such upgradable […]

By Emelie Rutherford As Boeing [BA] backers in Congress push the Pentagon to factor into the competition for the Air Force tanker contract European government support for a competitor, they […]