Defense

Hill panels split over amount Defense can transfer to Army

House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee has agreed to allow the shift of only $7.3 billion of $9.7 billion requested.

Defense

Bush orders contractors to check employees' legal status

Associations representing federal contractors fear E-Verify system is so faulty it will misidentify legal workers.

Defense

Bush: Troops could miss paychecks, civilians could be laid off

Congress must pass war supplemental funding measure to keep Defense operations going, White House says.

Defense

Lawmaker challenges Defense official's stance on new destroyer

Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., has taken his fight to put the DDG-1000 destroyer program on hold directly to the Pentagon's top acquisition official.

Defense

Gates offers Bush new Air Force leadership team

Gen. Norton Schwartz, a 35-year veteran with a background in Air Force special operations, is Defense secretary's pick as chief of staff.

Defense

Union calls for investigation into TSA turnover

The attrition rate for employees covered under the security agency’s new pay-for-performance system was 21 percent in fiscal 2007.

Defense

Lawmaker seeks to set standards for DHS handling of sensitive unclassified info

Move comes in wake of White House effort to set up consistent system across government for safeguarding sensitive documents.

Defense

Gates: Mishandled nuclear weapons doomed Air Force officials

Investigations have showed widepsread problems in dealing with intercontinental ballistic missile inventory.

Defense

Defense chief asks two Air Force officials to resign

The Air Force has been involved in several high-profile scandals in the last year.

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Lawmaker seeks to require military to buy U.S.-bred bomb-sniffing dogs

Most military dogs now come from fabled European bloodlines.

Defense

Senator wants post created to curb rising weapons costs

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said he would model the position on the Pentagon's director of operational test and evaluation, who oversees tests for major acquisition programs.

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State Department taps Foreign Service veteran to be acting IG

Harold Geisel served as acting IG in 1994 and also has held other senior management jobs at the department.

Defense

Army honors internal inventors

Developers of top technology solutions to be recognized for their work at June 12 ceremony.

Defense

Forward Observer: Our Pricey Military

The country's small, high-paid, all-volunteer force just does not have the staying power to wage long wars.

Defense

Coast Guard reaches milestone in massive equipment modernization project

Commandant Thad Allen talks about the troubled "Deepwater" program now that the service has received its first new long-range cutter in 36 years.

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ADVICE+DISSENT: Intelligence File Fusion Friction

Technology cannot change culture—a lesson we still haven’t learned.

Defense

Newly appointed Afghanistan IG lacks necessary funding

The office exists only on paper, until Congress resolves issues with supplemental war funding requests.

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Marine general lays groundwork for unprecedented change

Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff James Cartwright has a record of conceptualizing vast bureaucratic reforms -- and actually accomplishing them.

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From Nextgov.com: Bandwidth shortage threatens Army’s FCS plans

Congress concerned about Future Combat Systems and other programs that could overwhelm network capacity .

Defense

Chinese hackers pose serious danger to U.S. computer networks

Hackers may be responsible for two major U.S. power blackouts.