Congress

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy ordered 1,700 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs) from Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] on July 31. The contracting award, worth $1.1 billion, come after the […]

By Geoff Fein Language added to the House-passed defense authorization bill would give the government the technical data rights for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) if either shipbuilder declined to […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House dealt a major blow to the waning effort to extend production of F-22s yesterday by stripping from the fiscal year 2010 defense appropriations bill, by […]

By Ann Roosevelt By a vote of 426 to none, the House July 29 passed the Coast Guard Acquisition Reform Act of 2009, initially introduced by Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), […]

By Emelie Rutherford Lead defense appropriators continued to distance themselves from supporting extended production of the F-22 fighter jet yesterday, as House-Senate negotiators prepared to battle over funding for the […]

By Emelie Rutherford Missile-defense advocates in Congress have failed so far to halt President Obama’s proposed $1 billion-plus cut to such defenses, but have garnered support for continuing near- term […]

By Geoff Fein The House Appropriations Committee defense (HAC-D) subcommittee recommended including $400 million in research and development funding in the fiscal year 2010 defense appropriations bill for five VH-71 […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House’s lead defense budget writer unveiled a $508 billion Pentagon spending proposal yesterday that funds two aircraft efforts the White House has dubbed veto bait along […]

By Marina Malenic Members of a key congressional subcommittee yesterday expressed concerns about a new aircraft-carrier catapult system and how difficulties in its development might adversely affect the cost and […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate set aside a contentious vote on buying F-22 jets because of a battle over unrelated legislation yesterday, while the White House again dubbed funds in […]