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Study questions long-term expense and use of mine resistant vehicles
Report acknowledges the pressing need for the combat vehicles, but recommends a rigorous assessment of the costs, operational need and future use of the vehicles.
Defense
Naval forces outline new national maritime strategy
Forward-looking document addresses politically sensitive issues, such as global warming and the emerging dispute over access to the previously ice-bound Arctic seas.
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Commissioners call for streamlined vets benefits
Recommendations include assigning the Defense Department sole responsibility for performing physical exams that determine soldiers' fitness to serve.
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Defense comptroller: Financial management better than perceived
Further improvements hinge on showing military leaders and managers why it’s important to their mission, comptroller says.
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House panel questions benefits for deployed civilians
Hardship pay and other benefits are sufficient to attract qualified civilian employees to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan, agency representatives say.
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Senators question Defense's attempts to improve management
Defense official testifies that by 2009 the Pentagon expects to earn clean audit opinions on 39 percent of its assets, up from almost none in the 1990s.
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Pentagon asks Congress to drop plan for Afghanistan IG
Defense officials say the office would be redundant and deplete the department’s regular inspector general of needed personnel.
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TSA begins issuing ID cards to port workers
House committee demands an explanation for delays in implementing the program.
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Lawmakers urge Pentagon to hold off on new pay policy
Three House members say employees under new personnel system should get the raise they had anticipated for 2008.
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Internet-based system for federal documents previewed
The Future Digital System to store and distribute information will replace the GPO Access Web site and other Government Printing Office operations.
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IT standards cited as key to meeting intelligence sharing goals
FBI technology chief says success on 500-day plan to improve collaboration requires communitywide standards.
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Changes to Air Force IT contract could benefit new vendors
Proposal would split new version of the contract vehicle into three parts.
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Thin line separates aggressive fighting from war crimes
The somewhat ambiguous rules of warfare make the snap judgments that combat requires even more difficult.
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Military leaders seek larger-than-planned force in Europe
The Pentagon plans to maintain only two combat brigades in Europe, but officials are rethinking that strategy.
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State Department downplays report of security contractor drawdown
Agency spokeswoman says it’s “premature to speculate” about major policy changes.
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Federal judge puts hold on key immigration enforcement plan
Judge says until case is decided, employers cannot be held liable for failing to address “no-match” letters identifying discrepancies in workers’ records.
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House panel weighs need to account for nuclear material
Lawmaker has unveiled legislation to assist the government in creating a data bank that would make it easier to trace the origins of such material.
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Army seeks to balance near-term, future needs
Officials stress commitment to modernization program, while acknowledging more immediate demands for equipment repair and replacement.
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Democrats beat back GOP changes to spy bill
House Judiciary and Intelligence committees both approve legislation to overhaul the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
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