Congress

By Calvin Biesecker The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Friday said that it has found "inaccuracies" in the test results its contractors have performed on the agency’s various types of […]

By Calvin Biesecker Despite his previous warnings that the Coast Guard would have to be doing "less with less" unless it is adequately resources, Commandant Adm. Bob Papp told Congress […]

By Calvin Biesecker Even though the Tranportation Security Administration (TSA) has vowed that all international cargo bound for the United States on passenger planes will be screened for explosives by […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) now estimates that cost of using private screeners at airports is only 3 percent more than what it costs to use federal […]

By Emelie Rutherford Army officials told concerned lawmakers yesterday they are weighing how to work with industry when the service plans to pause production of three key vehicles. Rep. Silvestre […]

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 Calvin Biesecker Going ahead with a resolution that cuts more than $1 billion from the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) budget in FY ’11 would delay projects and progress […]

By Calvin Biesecker Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the budget cuts contained for her department in the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government this year are […]

By Calvin Biesecker An Office of Management and Budget rule requiring full funding for a program in a given fiscal year is the reason the Coast Guard decided against requesting […]