Congress

National Guardsmen who receive incentive and special-duty pay will soon be compensated at the same rate as their active-component counterparts as part...

A prominent lawmaker and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff headlined the 24th Annual NGAUS Industry Day today at the National Guard Memorial, the...

The Senate will once again look to vote on the annual defense policy bill this week. The normally bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act is...

A bipartisan amendment to the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act would open the doors for Guardsmen to be assigned to civil-works...

The path to approve a National Defense Authorization Act this year got a bit more complicated after Republicans voted late Monday to block the bill...

Months after the Defense Department agreed to extend the National Guard’s FireGuard pilot program, a bipartisan group of senators have moved to...

The Senate will take up its version of the fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act following a holiday break, but faces a big time crunch if...

New legislation is aimed at improving the National Guard’s emergency response efforts by allowing Active Guard and Reserve members to be called into...

More than 20 members of Congress have signed onto new legislation to update antiquated federal hiring preferences that are unfair to members of the...

Appropriations The House Appropriations Committee Defense Subcommittee marked up its FY22 Department of Defense appropriations on June 30. This...

The annual defense policy bill is unlikely to make any Thanksgiving menus this year. With the Senate in recess this week and scheduled for just three...

This year’s defense budget, already overdue, cleared an important hurdle last month when a bill was introduced by the Senate Appropriations Committee...