Defense Watch

Budget Watch. The House passed its defense appropriations bill last week, and the Senate Appropriations committee marked up its own defense spending bill. But the Senate is still trudging through […]

Budget Watch. Congress is sprinting through the defense authorization and appropriations process, with this week looking to be an extremely hectic one for those watching the defense budget. The Senate […]

Budget Watch. The House and Senate are back on the Hill this week, and there could be lots of momentum pushing the authorization and appropriations bills forward. The House Appropriations […]

Budget Watch. The Senate and House are in recess this week, but both chambers have made significant progress in moving defense spending bills this month. The House Appropriations Committee’s defense […]

Border Awareness. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology branch pursues an “enterprise capability” aimed at providing greater situational awareness across the nation’s borders, including land, coastal, and […]

Defense Budget. Next week will be a hectic one on Capitol Hill. The House is expected to take up the defense authorization bill on the floor as early as Wednesday, […]

NDAA Markups: SASC released its markup schedule for the National Defense Authorization Act, days after the corresponding House committee approved its own version of the bill. The full committee markup–which […]

Defense Budget. The House Armed Services Committee is gearing up to debate the fiscal year 2016 National Defense Authorization Act on April 29. During the release of subcommittee marks last […]

Antares Failure (One View). An Orbital ATK executive says “excessive bearing wear” in the turbopump of an Aerojet Rocketdyne engine, “main engine number one,” (ME-1) is “most probably” the cause […]

Body Camera Testing. As interest grows across the country in the in the use of body-worn cameras by local law enforcement officers, Customs and Border Protection is field testing the […]