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Defense industry executives called for more clarity regarding potential across-the-board Pentagon budget cuts yesterday, warning lawmakers that programs for jets, helicopters, and ships could be harmed. Leaders of Lockheed Martin […]

The House began debating a $519.2 billion defense appropriations bill yesterday, voting down proposals to cut funding for the Afghanistan war and missile defense. Many amendments are expected to the Pentagon spending measure, because […]

A defense-industry group unveiled a report warning so-called sequestration budget cuts could lead to the loss of more than 2 million jobs yesterday as Democrats and Republicans clashed on Capitol Hill about […]

As Congress prepared to debate legislation and hear testimony this week on “sequestration” reductions to the Pentagon budget, a senior Democrat threatened yesterday to let the potential cuts take effect […]

The Defense Department plans to turn over radio program responsibilities with the primary tactical radio requirements, after nearly a decade of effort to develop next-generation software-defined radios under the Joint […]

Republican leaders in the House and Senate told President Barack Obama they would not support delaying the start of so-called sequestration cuts next January that could slice $500 billion off […]

The co-author of legislation in the Senate that would leave the creation of cyber security standards and their enforcement to the private sector entities that have to implement them doesn’t […]

The Pentagon ended a controversial rule yesterday limiting the length of reports to Congress after a leading House member threatened to penalize the Pentagon. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy […]

The head of the Pentagon’s Strategic Command (STRATCOM) vigorously defended yesterday plans to build 12 SSBN(X) ballistic-missile submarines, suggesting the number of vessels could even increase. Lawmakers and Pentagon officials […]

Upset by the quality of a report from the Pentagon on China’s military, House Republicans called yesterday for the defense secretary to stop limiting the length of reports to Congress. […]