House lawmakers passed their version of the National Defense Authorization Act in a 363-70 vote on Dec. 7, axing provisions that would have expanded the draft to women and ended U.S. military support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. The $768 billion military budgeting bill sent to the Senate is above and beyond the $733…

The House voted to pass an adjusted version of the mammoth annual defense policy bill on Tuesday night, authorizing some $770 billion in Pentagon spending. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2022 was introduced by Senate Armed Services Chairman Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking Republican committee member, in September, and contains 27 Republican-led amendments….

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that 14 major military contractors have hired 1,718 former senior Pentagon officials over a five-year span. A group of good-governance advocates are pushing reforms seeking to prevent potential conflicts of interest posed by this activity. The Sept. 9 GAO report found that of 1,497,882 people who left…

The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) is debating the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)—a broad defense spending bill that authorizes funding levels for the U.S. military—for which members offered hundreds of amendments. Ranking Member Rep. Mike Rogers’s (R-Ala.) amendment, to increase the Biden administration’s NDAA budget request of $744 billion for the Pentagon and Energy…