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The Senate postponed a planned Wednesday vote on repealing the 'Don't ask, don't tell' law after Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chief GOP negotiator, asked for a delay. Senate Majority [...]

The leading Senate Democrat on military affairs on Tuesday expressed optimism that the upper chamber would take up the bill that contains the 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal in coming [...]

House Democrats are planning to back the Navy's plan to buy 20 new littoral combat ships as part of a stopgap measure that would fund the government until Sept. 30, [...]

The House will vote as soon as Wednesday on a continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government operating through next September. The resolution would increase spending by about $12 billion [...]

The prospective chairman said he would bring a 'sense of urgency' to his expected chairmanship of the prestigious panel, which has jurisdiction over military affairs. McKeon, 72, said he has [...]

The Army has overhauled its wish list for one of the few major spending programs in the pipeline at the Pentagon. The service on Tuesday released a new request for [...]

The chief executive officer of EADS North America says he has confidence in the Air Force's selection process for a lucrative tanker contract despite a clerical error that briefly left [...]

Navy and Pentagon officials are racing against time to win congressional backing for a plan to buy littoral combat ships from two builders instead of one, as initially planned. Navy [...]

The Marine Corps is seeking to restrict the money it spends on ground combat equipment because of ballooning costs over the last decade. The Marines have a range of only [...]

Lobbyists who have built their careers around securing congressional money for clients are facing the biggest squeeze yet on their business as earmarks begin to disappear from Washington. Since capturing [...]

An influential veterans group says a large number of lawmakers failed to help veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) [...]

The Air Force chief on Tuesday cautioned that his service is ensuring that the selection of a new refueling tanker fleet is done 'right' rather than 'fast.' The Air Force [...]

The Air Force's top uniformed officer on Tuesday warned that growing health care costs could hurt other critical military needs. 'We have to recognize that if we are not careful [...]

U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips on Tuesday barred the enforcement of the 'Don't ask, don't tell' law. Phillips ordered the Department of Defense to halt investigations and discharges of [...]

Lawmakers are renewing their push to put the head of the National Guard at the same table with the top military advisers to the president and secretary of Defense. Just [...]

The nation's largest labor union is throwing its weight behind Louisiana ship workers in an effort to save thousands of jobs in the battered New Orleans region. The AFL-CIO is [...]

Congressional defense committees have given the Pentagon the green light to spend $300 million on medical equipment and research projects to treat wounded troops. The congressional nod came at the [...]

Amid growing frustration, 37 House lawmakers are pressing for a subpoena of Defense Secretary Robert Gates as a last-ditch effort to receive information on his decision to close the U.S. [...]

Some of the nation's largest defense companies are seeing a boost in their quarterly earnings amid uncertainty over the Pentagon's future priorities. In a surprise to Wall Street, Lockheed Martin, [...]

The House defense appropriations panel on Tuesday funded a secondary engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, risking a veto of the 2011 spending bill. In an 11-5 vote, the [...]

The country's largest defense-industry interests are on track in 2010 to make record-level campaign contributions as lawmakers enter the home stretch of an intense midterm election season. The increase in [...]

The United States will need to provide financial assistance to Iraq for at least three more years to help build up the country's military, according to Gen. Ray Odierno, the [...]

Obama administration officials on Monday announced that 1,200 National Guard troops will deploy to the southwest border in August to assist with border security. The announcement ups the pressure on [...]

Louisiana politicians could face an uphill battle in their efforts to prevent Northrop Grumman from shutting down a major shipyard in a state already battered by a slew of disasters. [...]

Defense giant Northrop Grumman announced Monday it would move its headquarters to Falls Church, Va. After several months of searching in the Washington area, the firm said it signed an [...]

National Security Adviser James Jones on Wednesday announced the creation of a new and independent agency that will merge all export licensing activities under a board of directors reporting to [...]

Major defense companies that have enjoyed banner revenue and profit for nearly a decade are publicly backing a new Pentagon effort to make contracts more affordable and eliminate unnecessary spending [...]

Pentagon leaders on Monday called on the Department of Defense's Acquisition Corps and on defense companies to make contracts more affordable and to eliminate unnecessary spending on weapons and services. [...]

Pentagon leaders, the military services and defense contractors must work together to cut bureaucratic bloat and unnecessary programs, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday. Adm. Mike [...]

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he was 'nearly sick' when he read the magazine article that led to the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal. 'I couldn't [...]

A growing number of centrist Democrats say they're open to trimming Pentagon spending in the face of record budget deficits and mounting public debt. Liberal Democrats for years have called [...]

President Barack Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal of his command Wednesday and tapped the general's boss to replace him as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan. Obama said his decision [...]

President Barack Obama will confront Gen. Stanley McChrystal at the White House Wednesday and may fire his top commander in Afghanistan. The White House did not explicitly say McChrystal would [...]

Lockheed Martin's chief executive on Thursday expressed confidence that his company will beat the Pentagon's cost projections for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program. The F-35, the Pentagon's largest and [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged Congress to approve additional war funding by July 4 or risk forcing the Pentagon to curtail defense operations and eventually stop paying some active-duty service [...]

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday confirmed that Democrats have 'significant' concerns about the direction of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, and hinted that party support for [...]

Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) on Tuesday indicated that he backs Defense Secretary Robert Gates's efforts to free up about $100 billion from the Pentagon's budget over the next five years. [...]

House Republicans are preparing to mount a vigorous defense of the 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy President Bill Clinton implemented in 1993. GOP lawmakers in the lower chamber are poised [...]

Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) is in a politically awkward position on the Pentagon's 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy. Democratic leaders, working with gay-rights activists, are looking for ways to scrap [...]

House defense authorizers are pressing ahead with efforts to weed out fraud, waste and performance debacles that have plagued private security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lawmakers on the House [...]

House defense authorizers are warning the Army that its ambitious plans for a new ground combat vehicle could lead to skyrocketing costs and delays. As the House Armed Services Committee [...]

The Senate's leading Democrat on military affairs called Secretary of Defense Robert Gates 'gutsy' for taking aim at the Pentagon's spending practices and bureaucratic bloat. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the [...]

Hundreds of veterans on Tuesday will urge lawmakers this year to repeal the ban on openly gay personnel serving in the military. The approximately 350 veterans from 44 states will [...]

After nearly a decade of banner revenues and profits, several major defense companies are laying off hundreds of employees and reorganizing to protect their bottom line following contract cancellations. BAE [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday warned that the shipbuilding budget is unlikely to continue growing and urged the Navy and Marine Corps to ready for new challenges posed by [...]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is playing a major role in blocking a House bill that has a record number of co-sponsors. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.), is [...]

General Electric Co. and Rolls-Royce Group are trying to woo the Pentagon with a new pricing offer intended to keep the engine makers in the game for the F-35 Joint [...]

The chairman of President Barack Obama's export council on Thursday said the Democratic president holds the key to moving forward with three trade agreements that have been stuck in Congress [...]

The Virginia delegation has won a reprieve from the Navy in a protracted battle with Florida over nuclear aircraft carriers. The Navy has provided documents to Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.), [...]