Congress

By Geoff Fein The Navy has issued its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) request for proposal (RFP) for construction of the Flight 0+ ships planned for fiscal years 2009 and 2010, […]

By Emelie Rutherford Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the former lead GOP defense budget writer enmeshed in a corruption trial, isn’t the only Pentagon-overseeing lawmaker waging a tough fight for reelection […]

By Emelie Rutherford The two main candidates battling for California’s 52nd congressional district seat are no strangers to Congress, the Pentagon, the Global War on Terror, and defense spending. The […]

More Advanced Missile Defense Programs Would Receive Solid Budgetary Support The incoming president and Congress to be elected next month may make major cuts in the ballpark of "at least […]

Cuts Or Development Stretch-Out Would Come Just As ABL Program Has Been Performing Well Slashing $1 billion out of ballistic missile defense, with cuts aimed at programs that kill enemy […]

The Department of Defense should shift its procurement programs from a heavy emphasis on containing costs, and stress instead maintaining schedules, a new report states. Costs have risen, and schedules […]

President Bush signed into law a $20.2 billion NASA authorization bill, a measure that NASA Administrator Michael Griffin welcomed because it endorses the long-term goal of moving beyond low Earth […]

By Geoff Fein Although Congress cut $212 million from the Navy’s VH-71 presidential helicopter Increment II effort in the FY ’09 defense appropriations act, lawmakers still left $100 million to […]

By Emelie Rutherford As Iraq rebuilds its army into a lean force, it will seek additional U.S.-brokered arms sales in the next few years, and will focus on buying the […]

By Emelie Rutherford A former Pentagon official is recommending shifting from focusing on cost-based to time-based metrics for defense acquisition programs, which he said would control costs and schedule slippages […]