Management

Immigration services job competition moves forward

Recent protests by lawmakers and an array of interest groups have not changed the Homeland Security Department’s plans to put immigration services jobs up for competition within the next 10 months, according to a department spokesman.

Defense

Two years later, difficult questions remain

Two years after the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, the federal government is struggling both to define its mission for sheltering the homeland and to organize itself to provide a broad antiterrorist shield.

Defense

Transportation security effort called fragmented, underfunded

The various agencies involved in transportation security do not have enough resources and are struggling to sort out overlapping missions, experts told a Senate panel Tuesday.

Defense

Army troops, budget stretched to the limit

The U.S. Army is overcommitted, underfunded and being pressured to rapidly change its old ways of warfighting. Will the best Army in the world finally break?

Defense

Senators float plan to resolve Air Force tanker lease flap

Senate Armed Services Committee chairman John Warner, R-Va., and ranking member Carl Levin, D-Mich., Thursday urged the Pentagon to consider leasing up to 25 refueling aircraft in the near term while buying the remaining number of tankers later through traditional procurement practices.