Congress

By Emelie Rutherford Senior lawmakers said yesterday they hope to finish work on the two Pentagon funding bills by the start of fiscal year 2010 next week, though they acknowledged […]

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, 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 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 […]