Defense
DHS bottom-up review is long on ambition, short on detail
Lawmakers expected a roadmap for improving management and efficiency.
Defense
Contractors caught gaming the system avoid punishment
Eight months after GAO finds fraud in the service-disabled veteran-owed small business program, not a single firm has been suspended.
Defense
Full House panel will start on spending bills next week
Committee is slated to consider the Transportation-HUD and the Military Construction-Veterans Affairs appropriations measures.
Defense
Pentagon prepares funding contingencies
Plan will come into play if Congress does not pass the wartime supplemental spending bill by August recess.
Defense
House panel OKs $191.7B military construction bill
Plan includes $50.6 billion in advanced fiscal 2012 funding for key VA health care programs.
Defense
Defense mandates disclosure of contract bundling
Department also will alert lawmakers to large sole-source task or delivery orders.
Defense
Officials urge Hill to stop adding more C-17s to fleet
Additional cargo planes could hinder the Pentagon's five-year effort to trim more than $100 billion in unnecessary costs, witnesses tell lawmakers.
Defense
U.S., Canada launch border initiatives
Countries have agreed to complete a joint threat and risk assessment.
Defense
Immigration issue hasn't generated much heat this summer
Some congressional Democrats are concerned President Obama has spent too much time talking about immigration and too little discussing job creation.
Defense
Ukraine-U.S. team submits tanker bid
Dark-horse candidate for largest military contract ever makes the competition a three-way contest.
Defense
IG raises red flags over DHS plan to consolidate management systems
Department has tried, and failed, in previous efforts to integrate key financial systems.
Defense
Forward Observer: Have Guns, Will Travel
Is Congress willing to keep financing wars like the ongoing one in Afghanistan in perpetuity?
Defense
Veterans Affairs to streamline PTSD claims process
New rules eliminate detailed investigations into veterans’ service records.
Defense
From Nextgov.com: Navy awards contract to transition to expanded network
HP Enterprise Services will provide work to move IT services from NMCI to the Next Generation Enterprise Network, which will serve 700,000 sailors, Marines and civilians.
Defense
Boeing meets deadline for tanker bids
Company boasted that its tanker would be more cost-effective to own and operate than the one offered by rival EADS North America.
Defense
Beleaguered Defense audit agency crafts new vision for the future
Two years after unfavorable GAO report, new director is attempting a difficult reform.
Defense
EADS submits its tanker bid
The Pentagon is expected to award the contract, worth as much as $40 billion, by Nov. 12.
Defense
Gates suggests new CENTCOM chief
Defense secretary recommends Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis as next head of U.S. Central Command.
Defense
Nuclear weapons program chief pledges better governance
National Nuclear Security Administration is reviewing policies and procedures at contractor-operated facilities.
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