Congress

The unending woes of the over-budget, under-performing, behind-schedule National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) may have been inevitable even before the program began, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.) indicated. Not […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House was slated to consider last night $161.8 billion in war funding within a larger $186.5 billion supplemental spending bill that had been negotiated with the […]

By Emelie Rutherford While the departure of the Air Force’s two top leaders begins today, the schedule for the confirmation of the pair’s recommended replacements remained unclear yesterday, just as […]

By Calvin Biesecker The House on Wednesday approved seven new homeland security bills covering areas such as covert bomb testing, bomb prevention and respond, and biometrics, that the chairman of […]

By Emelie Rutherford Boeing supporters in Congress warned yesterday if the Air Force does not heed the Government Accountability Office’s call to reopen the tanker contract competition between Boeing [BA] […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee yesterday approved a $41.3 billion budget for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in FY ’09, a nearly 7 percent increase […]

By Calvin Biesecker A congressional mandate that all cargo containers bound for the United States be electronically scanned for threats raises a host of challenges for the U.S. and foreign […]

By Emelie Rutherford Surrogates for presumptive presidential nominees Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) described yesterday cautious approaches the candidates would take to the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW)–though […]

By Emelie Rutherford With the Government Accountability Office’s decision on Boeing‘s [BA] protest of the Air Force tanker contract to Northrop Grumman [NOC] expected this Thursday, lawmakers on both sides […]

By Emelie Rutherford Maine’s senators are appealing to defense appropriators in their chamber to heed the Navy’s $2.5 billion budget request for buying a third DDG-1000 destroyer–and to fight House […]