Many Feds Face Furloughs Twice
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No TSP Contributions During a Shutdown
How Contractors Might Weather a Shutdown
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House Intel Chair Wants Arab Troops To Secure Chemical Weapons
September 12, 2013 Despite calling the available options to secure Syria's chemical weapons "pretty awful," House Intelligence Chairman Mike Rogers, R-Mich., said it was possible to transfer the country's massive stockpile to international control -- especially with Arab League troops on the ground. "I do think you can get a good percentage of ...
How the Military’s 'Bro' Culture Turns Women Into Targets
September 9, 2013 Kayla Williams, an Arabic linguist, was the only woman with a group of about 20 troops posted to Iraq's Sinjar Mountain in 2003, and she was almost one of the boys. To kill time while off-duty, the men pretended to hump everything in sight, including the Humvee, during their relatively ...
How the Military's 'Bro' Culture Turns Women Into Targets
September 9, 2013 Kayla Williams, an Arabic linguist, was the only woman with a group of about 20 troops posted to Iraq's Sinjar Mountain in 2003, and she was almost one of the boys. To kill time while off-duty, the men pretended to hump everything in sight, including the Humvee, during their relatively ...
Worldwide Travel Alert Issued for Al Qaeda Threat
August 2, 2013 The State Department on Friday issued a worldwide travel alert to U.S. citizens, broadly citing potential terrorist attacks in August in the Middle East and North Africa, and possibly in the Arabian Peninsula or originating in that region. Embassies across the Middle East and in other Muslim countries are preparing ...
How BAE Systems Execs are Surviving Sequester: Shadeless Airline Windows
August 1, 2013 As the defense budget shrinks, industry is being forced to adjust its strategies. Tom Arseneault and David Herr, executive vice presidents for products and services, respectively, at BAE Systems, speak with National Journal Daily about the challenges. Edited excerpts follow. NJD: What’s the mood now, compared with the last defense ...
The Sequester Will Lift, Not Cut, Defense Costs
July 30, 2013 In retrospect, Bob Stevens was overselling. Last summer, to help motivate lawmakers to undo the sequester, Lockheed Martin’s then-CEO warned that the impending cuts might force him to lay off 10,000 of the defense giant’s 120,000 employees. That never happened. But Lockheed, which reported $39 billion in net sales last ...
Sequester and the Supply Chain: 'Life or Death' for the F-35's Small Companies
July 28, 2013 In retrospect, Bob Stevens was overselling. Last summer, to help motivate lawmakers to undo the sequester, Lockheed Martin’s then-CEO warned that the impending cuts might force him to lay off 10,000 of the defense giant’s 120,000 employees. That never happened. But Lockheed, which reported $39 billion in net sales last ...
Security Insiders: Thad Allen Should Replace Napolitano as DHS Secretary
July 23, 2013 Thad Allen, a retired Coast Guard admiral widely praised for his handling of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, should replace Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security Secretary when she retires in September, a plurality of National Journal's National Security Insiders say. Nearly 40 percent chose Allen over several other names commonly floated ...
Interview with Chuck Hagel's 'Alter Ego'
July 18, 2013 Ash Carter calls himself Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s alter ego. “That means knowing what he knows; organizing his decision-making; making all the decisions that are not so consequential that I need to bring them to his attention; making the place run on a day-to-day basis,” the deputy Defense secretary told ...
Who Will Be the Next Homeland Security Secretary?
July 12, 2013 News that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is stepping down to become president of the University of California system sent Washington policy wonks into a frenzy of speculation about who would take her place this fall. While White House press secretary Jay Carney said he had no names to offer, ...
