Defense Watch

8 Days Left For Congress. Congress will return on Dec. 1 for a final two-week session. In its last eight workdays of 2014, Congress still must pass a budget bill […]

  New GOP Appropriators. The House Appropriations Committee announced it would have four new Republican members in January:  David Jolly, from the Florida district of the late long-time appropriator and […]

Satellite Export Controls. Export controls of commercial satellites and related components loosen Nov. 10, according to a Federal Register notice. Category XV of the U.S. Munitions List (USML) traditionally-treated commercial […]

No Strategy, No Money. HASC Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.) said Friday, in anticipation of a White House request for $5.6 billion more to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and […]

Saab-Brazil. Brazil awards Saab a $5.3 billion contract for the development and production of 36 Gripen NG fighter jets, according to a company statement. Saab and Brazil also sign a […]

Settlement. Leidos has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve a False Claims Act lawsuit alleging that the company knowingly engaged in prohibited conflicts of interest as a contract for […]

Border Resource Control. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson tells the United States Chamber of Commerce that the directors of two joint task forces he plans to stand up to bolster […]

CSIS Names New Defense-Industry Director. Andrew Hunter, the Defense Department’s director of the Joint Rapid Acquisition Cell, will take over as director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group in the Center […]

New Leader. The incoming Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, former Prime Minister of Norway, takes up his duties Wednesday Oct. 1. Outgoing NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said farewell […]

Terrorists and Cyber. Terrorists understand the economic havoc they could create through cyber attacks but the intelligence community hasn’t seen them develop the “great capability” to do so, Nicholas Rasmussen, […]