Congress

By Emelie Rutherford A lawmaker who leads a Navy panel in Congress said he is pleased with the service’s new acquisition strategy for the cost-challenged Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program […]

By Emelie Rutherford Congressional Republicans immediately attacked yesterday the Pentagon’s new European missile-defense plan, charging it would leave the United States vulnerable, while Democrats hailed the new sea-and-land-based approach as […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate confirmed Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) as the next Army secretary on Wednesday night, clearing the way for him to be sworn in as the service’s […]

By Emelie Rutherford Senate NASA authorizers called on President Obama to boost human-spaceflight funding yesterday as it scrutinized a report spelling out alternatives to the agency’s underfunded moon-focused Constellation program. […]

By Emelie Rutherford A congressional committee questioned a preliminary report by a blue-ribbon panel on the future of human spaceflight yesterday, voicing support for NASA’s current Constellation effort that some […]

By Emelie Rutherford The top U.S. military officer told lawmakers additional reforms to Pentagon weapons-development processes are being considered, and called for a requirements-setting board to focus more on combatant […]

By Calvin Biesecker Oversight of major acquisition programs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been improving, particularly in the past year with new management guidance, but still falls […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon increased its requirement for a new breed of all-terrain mine-resistant trucks by 1,400 vehicles late last week as U.S. troops in Afghanistan face an increasing […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon, in a second round of appeals to defense authorization legislation, is pushing back on lawmakers’ cuts to its requests for a new Humvee-replacement vehicle, ship […]

By Emelie Rutherford A key Senate panel approved Pentagon spending legislation yesterday that heeds many of the Obama administration’s big program cuts while also boosting funds for additional mine-proof vehicles […]