State and Defense Department officials on Thursday pledged to cooperate closely with Congress on a new defense pact with Japan that will cut the number of U.S. troops on Okinawa in half. 

President Obama will sign an executive order aimed at stopping colleges from taking advantage of veterans who receive education benefits.

Lobbying for the top defense contractors remained mostly flat in the first three months of 2012.

House Republicans are working on a spending plan to finance weapons systems that could be used in a potential conflict with Iran.

Senators including Carl Levin argue premature reductions to the Afghan security forces could "jeopardize the progress of the past decade."

President Obama discussed the possibility of attacks on U.S. interests at a meeting with his national security team.

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.”