Congress

By Emelie Rutherford Sen. Ted Stevens’ departure from the post as Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee (SAC-D) ranking member has generated uncertainly about the fate of initiatives including national missile defense […]

United States Needs Cheap, Quickly Orbited Satellites To Replace Those Lost In Anti-Satellite Attacks: Gates The leader of the largest war-making force on the planet told members of an august […]

Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek begged off a scheduled White House visit with President Bush, because Topolanek has to deal with political problems arising from a regional election, and he […]

By Emelie Rutherford While Congress appropriated all the Army’s requested fiscal year 2009 funding for the Future Combat Systems (FCS), the program is likely to face a funding crunch next year, […]

By Calvin Biesecker A second round of testing that was completed on next-generation radiation portal monitors falls short in terms of the amount of testing needed to generate a statistically […]

View That Congress Will Slash Or Kill Spaceship Program Not Borne Out By Strong Budgetary Support, Officials Say NASA Examining Ways To Begin Manned Orion-Ares Flights Sooner The next-generation Ares […]

The score was one hit, one miss, in an Aegis system ballistic missile defense (BMD) test in the Pacific where the Navy for the first time ran the BMD test […]

McCain In 2004 Sponsored Bill Containing Retirement Of Shuttle As voters prepare to pick the next president in the election tomorrow, a key question regardless of who wins is what […]

By Geoff Fein Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) has asked the Navy to provide him data comparing costs between the DDG-51 and DDG-1000 as well as documentation supporting the Navy’s assertion […]

By Emelie Rutherford Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), the head of a key defense panel in Congress, said he plans to push next session for instituting capital budgeting at the Pentagon […]