What's Happening in National Security

Pouring Concrete on the Border

As Congress continues to threaten to withhold funds from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for failing to provide cost estimates...

Defense Earmarks

What a week! So we are slogging through the defense spending bill. From our counting of the earmark disclosure tables at the end of the...

The Nine Lives of the C-17

Now that the first drafts of the defense spending bills are rolling in, the tea leaves are beginning to curl into place to reveal which...

Fencing in the Dark

Members of Congress are finally waking up to the fact that a billion-dollar behemoth is about to rise from America’s southwestern border....

TCS Testimony: Fiscal Implications of Border Security Strategies

Testimony of Laura Peterson, Senior Policy Analyst for Taxpayers for Common Sense before the House Subcommittee on National Parks,...

More Money, More Problems

Can earmarks be too much of a good thing? Some high-level Defense Department officials think so. TCS commented this week on a recent DoD...

Dude, Who’s Watching My Contract?

The first question that demands answering after reading last week’s story about the 22-year-old who sold the Army $300 million worth of...

Boeing’s Fence Operation

While the Pentagon is investigating why Boeing spent its own money to keep the operations line for its C-17 aircraft open, the company...

Future Cash Combat

11:30 a.m. -- The Army’s Future Combat Systems, a sprawling modernization program that encompasses several phased deployments of weapons...

Missile Defense

11:20 a.m. -- The administration’s request included $9 billion for the Missile Defense Agency, the organization within the Defense...

Engineering Boondoggles

While Washington is wringing its hands about the automatic across-the-board budget cuts known as...