Congress

Sen. Burris, on Senate Armed Services Committee, Won’t Be Indicted Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee science and space subcommittee overseeing NASA, […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) agreed to give the Navy relief on a cost ceiling for littoral vessels, but made last-minute changes last week to the […]

By Calvin Biesecker Both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees have approved spending bills for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that would add funding for the air cargo security […]

By Emelie Rutherford Congress will likely approve more F-22s than the Pentagon requested and also should intervene in the Air Force tanker contract’s structure, the head of a congressional defense panel […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate in a 91-5 vote last night granted final approval to a $106 billion supplemental war-funding bill that adds funding for cargo planes and armored vehicles […]

By Calvin Biesecker General aviation aircraft represent "limited and mostly hypothetical threats to security" and steps that have been taken by airports to improve security related to general aviation "are […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday approved without objection a $42.9 billion FY ’10 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill. The bill was approved with only a manager’s amendment attached […]

By Emelie Rutherford Pushing back at the Pentagon’s plans to shut down F-22 production after 187 jets, a House panel yesterday authorized the purchase of parts for 12 more aircraft […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) marked up the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill yesterday, spending most of the daylight hours debating unsuccessful Republican attempts to […]

By Geoff Fein Even though the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) will not be delivered to the fleet as soon as originally intended, the Navy has no plan to fill the […]