How Federal Emergency Declarations Actually Work
The Stafford Act sets the triggers, the paperwork, and the money. Here is what a declaration does — and does not — unlock.
Government News
Financial reporting on defense and aerospace companies, covering quarterly results, order books, mergers, acquisitions and the export deals moving revenue.
How Congressional Oversight of the Pentagon Actually Works
Hearings, testimony, and reports are the levers Congress uses to hold defense programs accountable. Here is how each one moves money and programs.
Foreign Military Sales and Offsets: Where Defense Margins Actually Erode
Offset commitments and local production terms attached to FMS deals push costs onto contractors well after the headline contract value is announced.
How the Pentagon Uses Other Transaction Agreements to Skip the FAR
Other Transaction Agreements let the Defense Department negotiate prototype and research deals outside the Federal Acquisition Regulation, a tool that has grown sharply since the mid-2010s but comes with its own oversight gaps.
September 30 Looms Over the FY2027 Funding Fight
The fiscal year ends September 30 with full-year appropriations unbuilt, and the FY2027 request's two-track structure — $1.15 trillion discretionary plus $350 billion in reconciliation — makes this year's deadline harder to manage than most.
The House Race to Pass the FY2027 NDAA
The House takes up the fiscal 2027 defense authorization this month, keeping alive a July floor tradition that per CRS has anchored the bill's more-than-60-year enactment streak — with an amendment season that will test the reconciliation build-up.