Congress

By Jen DiMascio A senior member of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee and other lawmakers are pressing for hearings on the Air Force’s decision to award Northrop Grumman [NOC] a […]

By Jen DiMascio The Army National Guard needs $3.9 billion more than was included in its budget request for fiscal year 2009 and may run out of money for recruiting […]

By Geoff Fein Any plan to sacrifice a DDG-1000 to buy other ships could impact the Navy’s surface combatant lines as the service begins developing new classes of ships, the […]

By Dave Ahearn Some Democrats and Republicans, people in both the legislative and executive branches, and independent observers all agree on one point: NASA is underfunded and unable to continue […]

Bob Hastings, BAE SYSTEMS‘ vice president for communications, is leaving the company to take a job next month as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, according to […]

By Jen DiMascio Lawmakers said yesterday they are concerned about the effects of a $4 billion cut to the Transformational Satellite program (TSAT) in the Pentagon’s long term budget. "It’s […]

By Geoff Fein Lawmakers yesterday said they would like to see the Navy reach its goal of a 313-ship fleet sooner, and they would like to boost the ’09 shipbuilding […]

By Calvin Biesecker Appearing before a House panel yesterday that is unhappy with the work done so far on a high-technology electronic border security project, government and industry officials admitted […]

By Jen DiMascio The Air Force’s list of $20 billion in unfunded requirements was front and center at a House Armed Services Committee (HASC) hearing yesterday. Members of the committee […]

By Geoff Fein Rep. Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) lashed out yesterday at the Coast Guard for not putting forth more effort to recover funds spent on an attempt to extend the […]