How Congress is reacting to the Iran conflict
Breaking Defense's Aaron Mehta is joined by Stacie Pettyjohn of the Center for a New American Security to discuss Sen. Tim Kaine's push for a war powers vote and how it might play out.
HASC chair ‘optimistic’ FY27 budget request coming in March
The head of the House Armed Services Committee discusses next steps for the fiscal 2027 defense budget and Trump's missile defense vision.
Breaking Defense announces Breaking Defense Europe, a new, distinct, European edition
Breaking Defense Europe will launch May 4 with Tim Martin and Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo as co-editors.
How Mike Rogers wants to hit $1.5 trillion for defense
This week on the Congressional Roundup: The head of the House Armed Services Committee lays out a path to a $1.5 trillion defense budget.
Here’s the state of play on defense appropriations
This week on the Congressional Roundup: The House decides whether the government opens up or settles in for another long shutdown.
Here’s what Hill appropriators want the Pentagon to buy with $839 billion in 2026
This week on the Congressional Roundup: Dig into where lawmakers diverged from the Trump administration in the defense appropriations bill.
Congress passes $825 billion defense spending bill amid political battles, government shutdown threat
For the Pentagon, the bill’s passage signifies some return to normal order after having operated the first six months of the fiscal year under a continuing resolution.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.
House Appropriators Carve Out $1.5B For DDG Navy Failed To Fund
House lawmakers are irritated by the service’s choice to request a DDG-51 Flight III destroyer on their annual wish list, rather than design a budget that incorporated it.
ODNI Shifts Reponsibilities As 90% Of IC Programs Hit Green
INSA HQ: Drive milestone decision authority down as low as is possible. Speed decision-making. Let the Intelligence Community agencies create simple and clear requirements and manage their programs, as long as everything goes along swimmingly. That outlines the changes to acquisition that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence plans to make over the […]
Wicker-McCain Bill To Ease Navy O&M Rules On Collision Course With Appropriators
UPDATED with Harrison & Hunter analysis WASHINGTON: To prevent a repeat of last year’s lethal accidents, Senate authorizers Roger Wicker and John McCain want to give the Navy unprecedented flexibility to retain experienced officers and spend readiness funds. But the provision to let the Navy spend Operations & Maintenance money as late as in the fiscal […]
Continuing Resolution Fears? OCO’s Ugly But It Might Work
Two weeks from today America will either be a laughingstock or Congress will have done the responsible thing, the necessary thing, and passed some kind of useful spending bills. Or, as Mark Cancian, a former senior official at the Office of Management and Budget, suggests, there may be a sort of defense spending bandage to strap […]
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No ‘Stomach’ For Full-Year CR: Rep. Wittman
NATIONAL HARBOR: More and more House members oppose another Continuing Resolution, which should compel the passage of proper defense spending bills, the House seapower chairman said here this morning. It’s a rare case where the deep divisions in the Republican party between defense hawks and budget hawks could actually smooth the workings of government instead […]
McCain, Thornberry Decry WH NDAA Veto Threat; But What If It Happens?
WASHINGTON: The chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services committees made a rare joint appearance today and urged President Obama not to veto their policy bill for 2016. But Sen. John McCain and Rep. Mac Thornberry held out little hope Obama would back off, and if they have a plan for what to do if he […]
Obama NDAA Veto Threat ‘Of Great Concern To Me’: Sen. McCain
CAPITOL HILL: Chairmen of the House and Senate Armed Services committees take pride in the fact their panels have gotten 53 annual defense bills in a row through the often tortuous negotiations required to clear Congress. And Sen. John McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has often made known his view that the […]
Forbes Leads House Battle For Ohio Replacement Fund
UPDATE: Forbes’s amendment passed the House Wednesday night, by 321 votes to 111. WASHINGTON: Two powerful committees are headed for a rare House floor fight over a controversial fund to build new nuclear missile submarines. Rep. Randy Forbes and Rep. Joe Courtney, the chairman and top Democrat of the House Armed Services subcommittee on seapower, […]