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By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) yesterday announced its FY ’10 homeland security grant allotment for states and localities, totaling nearly $790 million, $190 million less than […]

By Emelie Rutherford The chairman of a key House subcommittee said he may support adding language to the Pentagon policy bill compelling the Pentagon to consider a transatlantic trade dispute […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is reorganizing its intelligence branch to better support its core customers, including state and local partners, and to make better use of its collective […]

By Emelie Rutherford The head of a congressional panel said he does not support increasing the Pentagon’s buy of C-17 aircraft, but wants authorization for the Joint Strike Fighter’s second […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has finished its analysis of an ongoing review aimed at aligning program activities and resources with missions and goals and the […]

By Emelie Rutherford As Congress held the first hearing yesterday on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) between the United States and Russia, supporters emphasized the pact would […]

By Emelie Rutherford A week after President Barack Obama announced he will not completely kill NASA’s Orion space capsule, the space agency’s director yesterday faced senators angry about the administration’s […]

By Calvin Biesecker Despite the recent murders of American citizens in Mexico and Arizona and a bomb attack against a United States consulate in Mexico, it’s still unclear whether Mexican […]

By Emelie Rutherford A new Pentagon-acquisition reform bill House lawmakers unveiled yesterday calls for the defense secretary to create a program to expand the defense industrial base, but does not […]

By Calvin Biesecker The federal government is considering establishing some type of interagency task force that would help the nation better cope with threats along the southwest border that is […]