http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2009 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:19:03 EDT By Geoff Fein A key Senate panel wants the Navy to submit a plan for providing a full and open competition for combat systems in construction of surface combatants beyond 2011. According to language in the Senate Armed Services Committee's (SASC)... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7446.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein Language in the Senate Armed Services Committee's (SASC) authorization report for fiscal year 2010 would prohibit the Navy from funding construction of any surface combatants after 2011 unless the service conducts analysis and certain tasks at... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7432.html Thu, 9 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The Senate moved yesterday to add funding to the Coast Guard's budget, not requested by the Obama administration, for rehabbing a polar icebreaker that has been drydocked for three years. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen testified... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7436.html Thu, 9 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford Senate debate on whether to keep funding in the Pentagon policy bill for aircraft efforts opposed by the Obama administration could start as soon as this week. While the multi-day debate of the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7423.html Wed, 8 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker A House proposal that would shift the responsibility for testing of automated biological detection systems from one agency in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to another would likely lead to further program delays, according to... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7386.html Tue, 7 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The defense policy bill the Senate is expected to debate this month calls for the Pentagon to craft detailed plans for two much-debated aspects of the Ballistic Missile Defense System: its testing regimen and its ground-based missile... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7389.html Tue, 7 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford An official overseeing the purchase of new all-terrain mine-resistant trucks said yesterday he is "pretty confident" Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] will build all 5,244 planned vehicles over the next nine months without enlisting... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7367.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] beat four competitors for the first order for new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicles (M-ATVs) designed for Afghanistan's terrain, though the Pentagon still plans to buy thousands more. The Oshkosh... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7357.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The outgoing head of the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) emphasized during a visit this week to Washington his desire for ample numbers of submarines and surface ships along with more intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7358.html Wed, 1 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon is expected to order as soon as today thousands of a new off-road variety of the Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle (MRAP) for troops in Afghanistan. Congressional, military, and industry sources said they expect just... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7340.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Just as the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) program to advance the detection of, and response to, harmful biological pathogens in the nation's major urban areas appears to be getting on track, the House says its concerns with the... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7345.html Tue, 30 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) is trying to kill a relatively new and controversial requirement that future Navy surface combatants must be nuclear powered. Two House lawmakers who pushed for the nuclear mandate, brought about... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7313.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Obama Must Complete All Shuttle Missions, Even If That Means Funding, Flights In Fiscal 2011; And Don't Fund Shuttle Flights By Short-Changing Other Programs Senate Bill Lashes NASA For Procurement Cost Overruns, Delays; Space Agency Must Tighten Rules... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7318.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Funding Restoration Amendments Are Rejected Even More Cuts May Gouge Missile Defense Programs In Future Years, Lawmaker Warns Both the entire House and a key Senate panel backed President Obama's quest to slash $1.2 billion from ballistic missile programs, as... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7320.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT But Defense Measure Also Encourages Talks With Russians Over Possible Joint Radar The pending Senate defense authorization bill leaves the European Missile Defense (EMD) program with just $51 million for the next fiscal year, which critics of the measure say... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7322.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Nuclear forces at Minot Air Force Base, N.D., passed inspections with the highest possible score. That's a reversal from the situation two years ago, when six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles were on-loaded to a plane and mistakenly flown to Barksdale Air... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7328.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The House and a Senate panel defied the White House yesterday and authorized adding money to the Pentagon's policy bill for F-22 fighter jets and a second engine program for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). Yet the future of the two... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7303.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the agency that will use the next generation of radiation portal monitors to scan cargo entering the country, expects that the operations and maintenance (O&M) costs of the new systems will be... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7304.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Calvin Biesecker The House late Wednesday night overwhelmingly approved a $42.6 billion appropriations bill (H.R. 2892) for the Department of Homeland Security in FY '10, including an amendment that adds back $40 million for a project to continue deploying... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7308.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Emelie Rutherford The head of a House oversight committee called yesterday for halting production of the V-22 Osprey after government auditors highlighted shortcomings with the Marine Corps' tilt-rotor aircraft including availability and reliability... http://www.defensedaily.com/sectors/congress/7289.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT