When the global war on terror began less than a month after Sept. 11, 2001, Congress created the overseas contingency operations account as a one-time supplemental ...

The Oco HD Wi-Fi Camera, available for $149 in the US, £109 in the UK and AU$199 in Australia, used the same third-party manufacturer as ArcSoft's Simplicam. Aside from having matching hardware, these ...

In early 2017, the Trump Administration tried to ax NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3, or OCO-3. It didn't work. Then, again in 2018, the White House sought to terminate the earth science ...

The Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding mechanism has been nothing if not controversial. Since its inception in FY2011, OCO has been used to pay for the added costs of the wars in Iraq and ...

When it comes to defense spending, there's one recurring debate that's as germane as the topline budget number: the overseas contingency operations account. The controversial OCO account, which funds ...

WASHINGTON ― The Pentagon’s decision to shift $20 billion from wartime funding into the base budget now has some clarity. During the Feb. 12 budget rollout of the fiscal 2019 budget request, there was ...

WASHINGTON — NASA’s investigation into the botched launch of the agency’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) Feb. 24 narrowed down to four the possible causes of the mishap, in which the fairing on the ...

Readings from NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 have confirmed that the El Niño weather pattern of 2015-2016 was behind the biggest annual increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in millennia ...

When plants take in too much energy, they don’t get fat — they lighten up. They absorb more sunlight than they need to power photosynthesis, and they get rid of the excess solar energy by emitting it ...

As the Biden administration prepares to deliver its first budget, the question arises of whether there's enough political clout to end the controversial overseas contingency operations account.