The Latest Breaking News from Armed Services

Most of the provisions aimed at identifying and removing extremism in the U.S. military were stripped out of the annual defense policy bill.

WASHINGTON — Defense-oriented House Democrats, including a cadre of self-described “badass” women with national security backgrounds, were largely unscathed by Tuesday’s election.

Doomsday queries at a Senate hearing reflect heightened level of alarm after China, Russia devise new delivery systems.

WASHINGTON — The Senate Appropriations Committee’s new defense spending bill would add $4 billion to the Navy budget — money the Navy did not seek and much of which the Armed Services and House Appropriations panels did not approve — for warships built largely by the constituents of senior appropriators.

The Senate Armed Services Committee recommended $45 billion more for national defense in fiscal 2023 than President Joe Biden requested.

Peter Cohn and John M. Donnelly examine the pressure by Armed Services panels to add billions more to President Biden's defense proposals.

The Senate Armed Services Committee has proposed a roughly 10 percent increase in national security funding for fiscal 2023.

The House Armed Services Committee will hew closely to President Biden's budget request in authorizing Navy shipbuilding next year.

A House Armed Services panel wants the Pentagon to consider whether it needs more Patriot missile defense systems.