Congress

By Emelie Rutherford A House panel for the first time is endorsing the Marine Corps’ plans for fortifying the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) with detachable underbelly armor, though lawmakers want […]

By Emelie Rutherford and Geoff Fein The Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye being developed by Northrop Grumman [NOC] suffered a critical cost breach triggering an already completed Pentagon certification under the […]

President Obama is advancing a defense budget plan that will result in a $150 billion shortfall over the next half a decade, unless Congress amends it substantially, a military analyst […]

Proponents of a dependable U.S. missile defense system of systems shouldn’t worry about the $1.2 billion of cuts to missile defense programs that President Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert […]

President Obama should provide strong support to the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system if he wishes to avert a growing danger of a nuclear arms race sweeping across the […]

J. Michael Gilmore, President Obama’s nominee to be the chief Pentagon weapons system tester, told senators the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system should have to provide not just confidence, but "a […]

By Emelie Rutherford House authorization panels recommended last Friday changing cost controls for Navy littoral ships, prodding the service to enter into multiyear contracts, and adding monies to the Pentagon’s […]

By Calvin Biesecker The House Appropriations Committee on Friday agreed to a $42.6 billion homeland security budget next year, about $200 million less than requested by the Obama administration and […]

Reps. Turner, Franks Assail Cuts As Harmful To U.S. National Security In a challenge to President Obama, some members of Congress will attempt to roll back at least some of […]

The Airborne Laser (ABL) is proceeding well toward a successful shoot-down of a target missile later this year, Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), […]