The House, for a second year in a row, has approved a measure limiting Pentagon spending on military bands next year to only $200 million.

An amendment by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, was approved as part of the fiscal 2013 Defense Authorization Bill and could save $188 million if it makes it through Congress. A similar amendment passed by the House last year, however, was dropped by the House-Senate conference.

The third biennial survey by the Carnegie Mellon University CyLab comes as Congress is considering legislation to mandate cybersecurity measures in critical industries.

As U.S. leaders grapple today with how to respond to North Korea’s failed rocket launch, they’ll have a vast array of calculations to consider. There are the strategic factors, the diplomatic factors (including how hard they can push China to pressure North Korea) and, in an election year, the political factors.

It may be the most exclusive "app" yet: the president’s daily intelligence brief.

A photo posted recently on the Web site of the director of national intelligence shows President Obama swiping an iPad screen during his daily update on key international developments and U.S. intelligence operations unfolding overseas.

That warning came from Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta Thursday night at a dinner sponsored by Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, which had just given him its Eisenhower Award for excellence in leadership.

“The program continues to experience cost growth and delays” and projected annual funding needs will average “more than $13 billion a year through 2035,” Michael J. Sullivan, the GAO director of acquisition and sourcing management, told the House Armed Services subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces on Tuesday.

In an exchange with Politico correspondent Josh Gerstein about the department’s prosecutions of alleged leakers, former Department of Justice Director of Public Affairs Matt Miller on Saturday said the Drake case, which ended last year in a misdemeanor plea deal, was unlike other cases because “Drake did seem to be trying to expose actual government waste. I think the outcome of the case probably shows that it was an ill-considered choice for prosecution.”