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Obama Must Complete All Shuttle Missions, Even If That Means Funding, Flights In Fiscal 2011; And Don’t Fund Shuttle Flights By Short-Changing Other Programs Senate Bill Lashes NASA For Procurement […]

Funding Restoration Amendments Are Rejected Even More Cuts May Gouge Missile Defense Programs In Future Years, Lawmaker Warns Both the entire House and a key Senate panel backed President Obama’s […]

But Defense Measure Also Encourages Talks With Russians Over Possible Joint Radar The pending Senate defense authorization bill leaves the European Missile Defense (EMD) program with just $51 million for […]

Nuclear forces at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., passed inspections with the highest possible score. That’s a reversal from the situation two years ago, when six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles were […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is trying to kill a relatively new and controversial requirement that future Navy surface combatants must be nuclear powered. Two House […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House and a Senate panel defied the White House yesterday and authorized adding money to the Pentagon’s policy bill for F-22 fighter jets and a second […]

By Calvin Biesecker Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency that will use the next generation of radiation portal monitors to scan cargo entering the country, expects that the operations […]

By Calvin Biesecker The House late Wednesday night overwhelmingly approved a $42.6 billion appropriations bill (H.R. 2892) for the Department of Homeland Security in FY ’10, including an amendment that […]

By Ann Roosevelt Congress has the last word on the future of the Army’ Future Combat System (FCS) Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon (NLOS-C), though the Pentagon’s acquisition chief has directed that work […]

By Ann Roosevelt Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter yesterday issued an acquisition decision memorandum (ADM) that brings to an end the Future Combat System (FCS) in its current form. "I […]