Defense & National Security

WASHINGTON, DC – In case you missed it, the Hartford Courant published a piece highlighting the Connecticut submarine industry’s essential role in national security and the growing importance of the AUKUS security agreement, which turns five years old today.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, in a speech on the House floor, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, called on his colleagues to support the Safeguarding Taxpayer Investment for Executive Airlift Act

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, and Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee, introduced the Safeguarding Taxpayer Investment for Executive Airlift Act. The bill would prohibit the use of congressionally authorized or appropriated FY27 funding to transfer the Qatari-gifted 747, now being used as Air Force One (the VC-25B Bridge Aircraft), out of possession of the U.S. Air Force. 

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, voted to pass a bipartisan continuing resolution (H.R. 6500) to keep the federal government funded through December 11, 2026.

NORWICH, CT – Today, Reps. Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, Wesley Bell (MO-01), and Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) led 15 of their colleagues on the House Armed Services Committee and 34 more Members of Congress in sending a letter to Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao expressing concern for the personnel and material readiness of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and requesting information on the ship’s deployment and future. 

NORWICH, CT – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee and Co-Chair of the bipartisan Friends of Australia Caucus, applauded Electric Boat’s $2 million steel plate order to Australian supplier Bisalloy Steel, which

NORWICH, CT – Yesterday, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee, Mark Rayha, President of General Dynamics-Electric Boat, Peter Baker, President of the Metal Trades Council of New London County, AFL-CIO, and Chris Jewell, President of Collins & Jewell and Chairman of the Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board’s Board of Directors, joined Jill Rusk, Mayor of the City of Groton, and a large crowd of state and local officials, educators, and leaders in Connecticut’s s

NORWICH, CT – Today, Congressman Joe Courtney (CT-02), Ranking Member of the House Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee and a senior Member of the House Education and Workforce Committee, released the following statement after the Navy officially executed contract awards to Electric Boat for construction of nine Virginia-class Block VI fast-attack submarines and five Columbia-class Build II ballistic missile submarines.