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Air Force

HASC Panels Back F-35 Second Engine, Shipbuilding Oversight

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Friday, May 14th, 2010

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By Emelie Rutherford Key House panels approved plans yesterday that recommend continuing the Pentagon's contested F-35 Joint Strike Fighter second engine and call into question Navy plans for a costly ballistic-missile submarine. The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) will weigh the legislative proposals, approved by subcommittees yesterday, when it marks up its version of the fiscal year 2011 Defense Department authorization bill next Wednesday. The HASC's Seapower and Air and Land Forces subcommittees together called yesterday for authorizing spending $485…

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]

Congress

Rep. Himes Signals Increased Contractor Oversight, if Democrats Win House

Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, plans to increase the committee’s contractor oversight if the Democrats win control of the House […]

Congress

CBO Estimates Loss of One-Half to Two-Thirds of U.S. Missile Interceptors Since June Last Year

A new Congressional Budget Office report estimates the cost of the Iran war through Aug. 1 as $38 billion and says that the U.S. has likely depleted between one-half and […]