Defense

Bush does end run around Congress, installs base closure panel

Bush recess appointment puts panel’s head, eight nominees into place after senator blocks vote.

Leadership Profile

Base Hitter

Features

Trial by Fire

Defense

With top Air Force slots vacant, Pentagon takes over procurement programs

Action is "not a punitive one," says Defense undersecretary.

News And Analysis

The Long Wait

Defense

Bush chooses former VA chief for BRAC commission

Defense Department will make its recommendations for closures and realignments in mid-May.

Features

Shield of Dreams

News And Analysis

Give and Take

Management

Pentagon investigating former officials working for contractors

Probe aims to determine if procurement executives violated federal conflict-of-interest laws.

Defense

Justice forms procurement fraud task force

In wake of scandal at Defense Department, new working group aims to combat abuses in acquisition system.

Defense

Boeing CFO gets four-month jail sentence

Michael Sears also fined $250,000 for illegally negotiating a job for a top Air Force official at the nation’s second-largest defense contractor.

Defense

More Air Force contracts under scrutiny in procurement scandal

Eight additional Air Force deals worth about $3 billion will be scrutinized.

Defense

Defense budget proposal boosts benefits

Bush administration’s $419 billion request, almost 5 percent more than last year, also curtails spending on some weapons systems.

News

Retired military officers tapped to serve on base-closing commission

Bush administration, Senate minority leader picks pending.

Defense

Shipyard workers fear base closure process could bring privatization

Labor unions ask Congress top take action to prevent the Pentagon from using base closures to eliminate shipyards.

Defense

Several names floated for base closing commission

Panel will decide which bases should be shuttered or realigned in 2005.

Defense

Druyun scandal may lead to more vacancies at the Pentagon

Air Force acquisition chief says "there are many people now lining up to leave."

Defense

Former Air Force acquisition chief begins prison term

Darleen Druyun was sentenced in September to nine months in federal prison for violating conflict of interest laws.

Features

Breaking Ranks