Congress

By Emelie Rutherford President Bush signed the fiscal year 2009 defense authorization bill into law on Tuesday, thus leaving the Defense Department (DoD) with both an authorization and appropriations act […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Navy’s request to dip its aircraft carrier fleet from 11 to 10 was not granted by Congress in the recently passed fiscal year 2009 defense authorization […]

By Emelie Rutherford The heads of a naval panel in Congress said they expect to remain focused next session on ensuring more Navy ships are nuclear powered, hammering out the […]

Both the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential candidates condemned Iranian moves to produce nuclear weapons, saying that would pose a grave threat to the existence of Israel. Sen. Barack Obama […]

Neither of the major-party U.S. presidential candidates is expected to press for aggressive U.S. policies in space or the procurement of anti-satellite weapons, a new report suggests. Thus no major […]

Defense spending on weapons systems may not plummet in the next several years, despite some pundits asserting that huge federal budget deficits, an imploding economy and nosediving federal revenues mean […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy has to move toward an open systems environment in its surface combatants if it wants to avoid retiring ships too early and to keep pace […]

By Emelie Rutherford The major presidential candidates are welcoming word of a possible Pentagon-brokered $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan, with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) calling for the deal to […]

By Emelie Rutherford A senior Army official said while it’s not known yet if the Pentagon will order more Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles for troops in Afghanistan, he […]

By Emelie Rutherford The initial congressional response appears positive to the Navy and Marine Corps’ planned study of the role of naval surface fires support in expeditionary operations, a capability […]