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Homeland Security

Like House, Senate Appropriators Concerned With Border Technology Plans

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, May 25th, 2012

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While funding the entire budget request for border security technology and related infrastructure, Senate appropriators are concerned that plans to procure a key system as part of a future sensor network may be too risky. “If it applies nowhere else, the phrase ‘once burned, twice shy’ applies here,” the Senate Appropriations Committee says in its report accompanying its version of the FY ’13 Homeland Security Appropriations Bill. The report refers to Customs and Border Protection’s plans to buy the Integrated…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]

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 […]