Navy/USMC

By Emelie Rutherford As the Pentagon grapples with congressional resistance to reprogramming funding in its coffers, a top defense official said yesterday he is working to make more formal processes […]

By Emelie Rutherford As Congress prepares to take up yet another temporary federal budget extension this week, defense-minded lawmakers are trying to attach Pentagon policy measures to the bare- bones […]

By Carlo Munoz Defense giant Lockheed Martin [LMT] has wrapped up a multimillion dollar deal to upgrade the Navy’s heavy torpedo arsenal to take out shallow water targets, according to […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps’ top officer told lawmakers yesterday he is closely monitoring development of his service’s variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and hopes to remove […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Senate is expected to debate this week a defense appropriations bill for the remainder of this fiscal year that would cut $17.3 billion from President Barack’s […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Republican-controlled House is slated to debate a two-week budget extension today that would maintain the Pentagon at last year’s budget levels and prevent a government shutdown […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Marine Corps’ nascent Force Structure Review (FSR) recommends reducing force structure and optimizing the service for crisis response and forward presence, a senior official said. Lt. […]

By Emelie Rutherford House and Senate leaders continued to clash yesterday over how to proceed with the current year’s budget, leaving in doubt a House measure that could end both […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House voted to kill funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine yesterday as a congressional panel questioned if the Pentagon illegally lobbied lawmakers to […]

By Emelie Rutherford As the Pentagon continues to prod Congress to pass a budget for the fiscal year that began four months ago, defense leaders argued yesterday a defense spending […]