The Senate Armed Services Committee has passed a fiscal year 2015 defense authorization bill authorizing $514 billion in base funding and protecting a variety of acquisition programs that were slated for budgets cuts, according to lawmakers who spoke at a May 22 press conference. "The committee's highest priority in the mark-up was to help the Department of Defense get through a very difficult period of extremely tight budgets, while minimizing damage to our national security, and that required us to...
