Tony Bertuca

Defense Department comptroller nominee Jay Hurst on Tuesday defended the Pentagon's revamped strategy for achieving its first clean financial audit, telling senators that expanded use of artificial intelligence, a greater focus on the department's largest financial accounts and changes to federal accounting standards can help the department achieve a clean audit opinion by the end of 2028. Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hurst acknowledged skepticism over the department's repeated audit failures but argued the Pentagon -- which has...

The House Budget Committee voted 20-14 in a party-line vote today to advance a resolution that would set the framework for a reconciliation spending package that would include $60 billion for defense to help partially fund the cost of the ongoing U.S. military campaign against Iran.

House Republicans have proposed a stopgap continuing resolution intended to fund the federal government through Dec. 4, potentially punting contentious budget negotiations until after the mid-term elections.

The Trump administration is asking Congress to include a sweeping package of defense anomalies in a fiscal year 2027 continuing resolution aimed at preventing disruptions to major weapons programs, shipbuilding, military health care and defense modernization, according to a document obtained by Inside Defense. Among the largest requests are a $3.24 billion increase for the Defense Health Program and a $3.22 billion increase to the procurement, defense-wide account to support classified “National Security Systems” priorities. The proposal...

The House voted 220-205 Tuesday evening to pass a stopgap continuing resolution that would fund the federal government through Dec. 4.

The Senate approved an en bloc package today that confirmed nominees for Pentagon comptroller, Space Force acquisition chief and National Reconnaissance Office director.

(Editor's note: The original version of this story mistakenly reported that the nominees had already been confirmed via an en bloc package.)

The Senate Appropriations Committee has released a continuing resolution that would fund the Defense Department at fiscal year 2026 levels through Dec. 11, restricting the Pentagon's ability to launch new acquisition programs while providing a handful of targeted exceptions for shipbuilding, classified procurement and the nuclear weapons enterprise. Like most continuing resolutions, the legislation would continue funding under the FY-26 Defense Appropriations Act while prohibiting the department from beginning production of systems that were not funded in FY-26, increasing...

The Defense Department has submitted an $18.2 billion proposal to congressional appropriators aimed at rapidly expanding production of critical missile systems after the recent U.S. conflict with Iran sharply increased demand for air and missile defense interceptors, according to a document obtained by

The Government Accountability Office has found the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) overstated or could not substantiate billions of dollars in claimed savings from Pentagon contracts, including a Defense Health Agency information technology contract that generated zero savings despite senior officials touting $1.7 billion in reductions. In a report released Thursday, GAO said DOGE's public " Wall of Receipts " claimed $61 billion in savings from terminated federal contracts, but the agency frequently did not follow its...