Defense
Audits rap TSA for spending, ethics, performance lapses
Homeland Security IG issues three reports criticizing crisis management center and passenger and baggage screening.
Defense
Base-closing panel sets first meeting
Base Realignment and Closure Commission will kick off May 3.
Defense
Defense contractors want in on manufacturing tax break
Companies insist Congress intended tax cut enacted last fall to apply to all U.S. manufacturing, including defense contracts.
Defense
Deputy Defense nominee fields questions over shipbuilding, acquisition
Navy Secretary Gordon England vows to fix the department's acquisition mechanism.
Defense
Senate signals unhappiness with war supplementals
Senators approve non-binding resolution urging that war funds be included in regular annual budget submissions.
Defense
Pentagon to participate in international plague vaccine effort
United States will work with Canada and United Kingdom on project.
Defense
Senators aim to derail Pentagon plans to scrap C-130J
An amendment to the emergency defense spending bill would prohibit funds from being spent to terminate the $4.1 billion contract for the aircraft.
Defense
Robotic spacecraft mission cut short
Apparent fuel shortage causes craft to shut down after rendezvous with military satellite.
Defense
Border Patrol agents in Arizona face increased confrontations
Top agent says rise in assaults attributed to attempts to shut down drug runners and smugglers of illegal immigrants.
Defense
New terrorism response plan takes effect
New National Response Plan and closely related National Incident Management System replace a patchwork of existing documents.
Defense
Report highlights challenges facing new national intelligence director
Congressional Research Service notes concerns about ambiguities in law, especially relationship between DNI and Defense secretary.
Defense
GAO says problems justify rebidding C-130 contract
Watchdog agency says award was tainted because Darleen Druyun, formerly the Air Force's second-ranking acquisition official, was biased in favor of Boeing.
Defense
Homeland Security 'moving rapidly' to fill high-level vacancies, chief says
Secretary Michael Chertoff outlines personnel-related actions designed to bind department together as a “unitary organism.”
Defense
Pentagon plans to consolidate forces in Europe take shape
Troop levels would be cut from 62,000 to 24,000 in the next five to 10 years.
Defense
GAO, Pentagon at odds over management
Watchdog agency pushes for chief management officer; Defense officials demur.
Defense