Congress

By Emelie Rutherford The top U.S. military officer told lawmakers additional reforms to Pentagon weapons-development processes are being considered, and called for a requirements-setting board to focus more on combatant […]

By Calvin Biesecker Oversight of major acquisition programs at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been improving, particularly in the past year with new management guidance, but still falls […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon increased its requirement for a new breed of all-terrain mine-resistant trucks by 1,400 vehicles late last week as U.S. troops in Afghanistan face an increasing […]

By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon, in a second round of appeals to defense authorization legislation, is pushing back on lawmakers’ cuts to its requests for a new Humvee-replacement vehicle, ship […]

By Emelie Rutherford A key Senate panel approved Pentagon spending legislation yesterday that heeds many of the Obama administration’s big program cuts while also boosting funds for additional mine-proof vehicles […]

By Emelie Rutherford A Senate panel unveiled a defense appropriations bill yesterday that all but assures continued C-17 aircraft production while leaving the F-35’s alternate engine, F-22 jet, and VH-71 […]

By Emelie Rutherford Lawmakers siding with the Obama administration in its opposition to a second alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter said they would support President Obama if […]

By Emelie Rutherford Boeing [BA] supporters in Congress argued last Friday that as the Pentagon prepares to release the solicitation for the Air Force tanker it cannot ignore the World […]

By Ann Roosevelt FT. BLISS, Texas— Troops posing as insurgents on a rooftop pour .50-caliber machine gun fire down at advancing U.S. soldiers conducting a cordon and search mission. Some […]

By Marina Malenic and Emelie Rutherford General Electric [GE] and Rolls-Royce are seeking to win over critics of the plan to purchase an alternate engine for the Pentagon’s newest fighter […]