Congress

By Geoff Fein The cost for the recently awarded contracts for the third and fourth Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) was more than $430 million per ship–however missing from that number […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House’s lead defense budget writer plans to talk to the Pentagon acquisition chief today about ensuring there is an industry competition to build the Air Force […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will not meet a congressionally-imposed deadline in 2012 that 100 percent of all sea containers bound for the United States be […]

By Emelie Rutherford Northrop Grumman [NOC] told the Pentagon yesterday it cannot compete for the Air Force tanker contract under the contest’s current terms, spurring the company’s congressional backers to […]

By Emelie Rutherford While President Barack Obama plans to officially announce tonight plans for sending more troops to Afghanistan, he already has given orders for the deployments to commence as […]

By Emelie Rutherford While the Navy is committed to building systems with open architecture, it must weigh the cost of and operational need for retrofitting existing equipment to have such upgradable […]

By Emelie Rutherford As Boeing [BA] backers in Congress push the Pentagon to factor into the competition for the Air Force tanker contract European government support for a competitor, they […]

By Calvin Biesecker While it has taken six years for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to develop regulations to bolster security at domestic and foreign aircraft repair stations, the agency […]

By Calvin Biesecker The White House has convened an interagency policy committee to address the nation’s shortage of Helium-3 (He-3) gas used in a variety of applications, including neutron detector […]

By Calvin Biesecker A second round of field testing over the summer of next-generation radiation portal monitors showed that problems with the systems persist and there are not currently plans […]