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With $24.5 billion in defense spending pouring into Hampton Roads this fiscal year, the military is critical to the local economy. One industry with much at stake is shipbuilding, with more than 25,000 people doing the work at the area’s largest private employer, Newport News Shipbuilding. And the Congressional panel which has a large hand

If America needed a wakeup call on the dangers posed by home-grown domestic terrorists, it most certainly got one on January 6th. Experts told the House Homeland Security Committee Thursday that the deadly insurrection revealed how grave the danger the enemy within poses, adding that radical violent extremism has “rapidly become part of the cultural

Rep. Elaine Luria (D, VA-02) was unanimously voted to become Vice Chair of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, the Congresswoman announced. “Our warfighters deserve proper equipment, training, and funding so they can succeed in their missions to defend America,” Luria said in a news release. “As Vice Chair, I will work every day

The first of the Navy’s 12 new Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarines is scheduled to be constructed, commissioned and operational by Fiscal Year 2031, a mere 10 years from right now. The ceremonial first cut of steel was made at Newport News Shipbuilding back in May of 2019. But, going forward, the cost and schedule plans could