House lawmakers are using their draft version of the fiscal 2013 defense bill to force the Navy to open up about the recent difficulties on its newest warship. 

The House Armed Services Committee is looking to block the Pentagon’s plan to retire one version of the Global Hawk drone.

The Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittee’s portion of the defense authorization bill would “require the Secretary of the Air Force to take all actions necessary” to keep the RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 30 unmanned aircraft operational through the end of 2014, according to documents released Thursday by House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon (R-Calif.).

Biden said a "bumper sticker" for Obama's accomplishments would be "Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.”

Defense lawmakers in the House have blocked a move by the Navy to retire several warships from the fleet before they are due, according to their version of the fiscal 2013 defense bill. 

The Armed Services Committee won't include two rounds of base closures requested by the Pentagon in its Defense authorization bill.

Lockheed Martin CEO Bob Stevens, who has been at the helm of the defense giant since 2004, is stepping down at the end of the year, the company said Thursday.

Stevens will be replaced by current President and Chief Operating Officer Chris Kubasik.

Stevens will remain at Lockheed Martin as chairman through January 2014, subject to approval by the shareholders and board.

Obama’s team is readying to attack Romney’s foreign policy, with a new video and speech by Biden later today.

In an address Wednesday, the rising conservative star sought to revive former President Reagan’s foreign policy legacy in the GOP.

A variety of interests lobbied on the dreaded budget sequestration last quarter, according to lobbying disclosure records.