Congress

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 […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate is expected to cast a delayed vote as soon as today on striking F-22 fighter jet funding from the Pentagon policy bill, and both sides […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate is expected to vote by mid-day today on an proposal to strike from the defense authorization bill funds for buying seven F-22 fighter jets the […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army’s move to modular brigade combat teams (BCT) raises questions about cost, capability, equipment and personnel that the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) wants examined in […]

By Calvin Biesecker The top two senators on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday said they would introduce legislation that would allow for more funding and require […]

By Geoff Fein A key Senate panel wants the Navy to submit a plan for providing a full and open competition for combat systems in construction of surface combatants beyond […]