Congress

By Emelie Rutherford Democratic lawmakers are considering folding the defense, Homeland Security, and military-construction spending bills into one package to be voted on before the end of the month, an […]

By Emelie Rutherford Members of a House subcommittee raised serious doubts yesterday about Pakistan’s request to rejigger some of its U.S. aid to beef up its F-16 fighter jets, and […]

By Emelie Rutherford Senate defense appropriators have staked out different stances than their House counterparts on troubled aircraft efforts, including calling for greater funding reductions to the presidential helicopter and […]

Russia Lambasted For Continued Occupation Of Georgian Provinces; Asian Nations Provide $40 Million Low-Interest Loan To Georgia But Some U.S. Lawmakers Still Are Cool To Providing Funds Required To Build […]

NASA has increased its use of temporary hirings, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report to Congress stated. Since NASA was given the power to appoint employees to positions for limited […]

By Emelie Rutherford While the Navy snagged support from a key Senate panel last week for its new plan to build one more DDG-1000 destroyer before restarting production of the […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate appears to have missed the majority leader’s goal of passing the fiscal year 2009 defense authorization bill this week, with debate stalled yesterday after scant […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate Appropriations Defense subcommittee (SAC-D) included funds yesterday in its marked-up bill for a third DDG-1000 destroyer for the Navy in fiscal year 2009, ensuring the […]

By Calvin Biesecker Spending on the virtual fence component of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) will run out in late October if Congress doesn’t approve an FY ’09 appropriations bill […]

By Emelie Rutherford Congressional backers of Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] aerial refueling tanker bid decried news that the Pentagon is terminating the current KC-X solicitation, charging politics factored too much into […]