BELLEVUE, Neb. (WOWT) - Officials at Offutt Air Force Base announced Wednesday that a new organization that will oversee key grids needed to maintain national security.  U.S. Strategic Command, known as STRATCOM, is the Defense Department’s leading command responsible for operating missile defense and maintaining a global information grid. There, the Electromagnetic Spectrum… Read more »

Washington – Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) announced he will be cosponsoring H.R. 4144, the Federal Assistance to Initiate Repayment (FAIR) Act, introduced by Reps. Burgess Owens (UT-04), Lisa McClain (MI-09), and Virginia Foxx (NC-05) in the Committee on Education & the Workforce. The FAIR Act, a Republican solution to fix our broken student loan system, will simplify the repayment… Read more »

The U.S. military is failing to speedily develop and deploy electronic warfare equipment amid a global competition for electromagnetic spectrum supremacy, according to a congressman who served in the Air Force for more than two decades. After years of putting electronic warfare on “autopilot,” troops’ ability to now jam and spoof and spy from afar has “withered,” said Rep. Don… Read more »

Media Alert:  Saunders County Office Grand Opening   Omaha, Neb. – A grand opening and ribbon cutting for the Saunders County District office of Rep. Don Bacon will be held on Friday, July 21, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. at 543 North Linden St. in Wahoo, Nebr. An open house will be held from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. This office provides a central location for Saunders County… Read more »

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) joined his House colleagues last week in voting for H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2024. The bill passed the House of Representatives by a bi-partisan majority of 219 to 210. “For the 63rd consecutive year, the House of Representatives has passed bi-partisan legislation providing for the… Read more »

Nebraska is getting more than $400 million in federal infrastructure funds to expand broadband access in the state. The money is part of $42 billion for broadband contained in the infrastructure bill Congress passed in 2021. Nebraska’s all-Republican congressional delegation was split over the bill, with Sen. Deb Fischer and Rep. Don Bacon voting for it, saying it was essential for… Read more »

Iran on Monday requested the Iraqi federal government in Baghdad as well as the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil to explain efforts by the US Congress to provide air defence systems to the Iraqi Kurdistan region. The House Armed Services Committee last week passed an amendment by Republican Congressman Don Bacon supporting the transfer of air defence… Read more »

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 23, 2023 Defense Committee Unanimously Adopts 32 of Bacon’s Amendments Washington, D.C. – Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02), member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), voted Thursday morning in favor of advancing H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2024. The… Read more »

House lawmakers approved three amendments aimed at curtailing Air Force plans to retire aging fighter jets as both the Senate and House began marking up their respective drafts of the 2024 defense authorization bill.  Read more here. Read more »

Three members of the House Armed Services Committee unveiled a bipartisan measure late last week aimed at strengthening cybersecurity practices for the United States’ nuclear weapons system, and aim to advance that measure in legislation this week. Read more here. Read more »