House lawmakers completed draft legislation this morning that would establish a new Homeland Security Department, paving the way for a floor vote next week.
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House lawmakers completed draft legislation this morning that would establish a new Homeland Security Department, paving the way for a floor vote next week.
A senior Pentagon official said today he is planning to redraft a controversial proposal composed this year to toughen safeguards on military research and technology.
Kenneth Steadman, principal deputy of the Army's legislative liaison office, has resigned for distributing "inappropriate, inaccurate and offensive language" in an attempt to lobby congressional support for the Crusader field artillery program, the Army announced today.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden, director of the National Security Agency, today defended how the NSA operates, depicting the agency as one struggling to tell its story under the confines of top secret classification.
The Air Force has named Robert Dickman, a retired Air Force major general, the deputy for military space under Peter Teets, the service's under secretary.
Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) said last night he is developing legislation designed to expand the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program to encompass countries other than Russia and former Soviet states.
Israeli defense officials said today they plan to press U.S. officials to support increased production of Arrow missiles, a program slated for upgrades so that it can effectively counter Iran's Shahab-3 missile.
The Pentagon this afternoon announced the creation of a new post to oversee military spectrum policy, tapping Steven Price as the new deputy assistant secretary of defense (DASD) for spectrum and command, control and communications (C3) policy.
The CIA yesterday lashed out against "several self-described" experts who criticized its decision to identify the agency officer killed last week in Afghanistan as a public relations stunt.
The Senate Armed Services Committee today approved by voice vote five civilian nominations for the Defense Department.
The CIA yesterday posted on its web site a 1998 handbook on handling weapons of mass destruction.
A draft executive order obtained by InsideDefense.com tasks a presidential cyber-security adviser to review "relevant federal programs and their funding requirements" and craft frequent national plans to protect the nation's most crucial information infrastructures.
An unclassified version of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's "terms of reference" for the 2001 Quadrennial Defense Review identifies more than a dozen investment priorities for the secretary and six major issues the review will confront.
Biotechnology could someday improve the readiness and survivability of a soldier as drastically as information technology has revolutionized current forces, according to a report released yesterday by the National Research Council in Washington, DC.
The House Appropriations Committee has approved a $5.5 billion increase in fiscal year 2001 spending for the Defense Department in a supplemental bill intended to shore up immediate funding shortfalls.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States today approved the controversial sale of the Silicon Valley Group of San Jose, CA, to a Dutch company, a Treasury Department spokesman confirmed.
NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson said today that the turn-around in recent months within the alliance regarding U.S. plans to construct a national missile shield is not so much a grudging acceptance of the inevitable, but rather a recognition that Europeans may eventually benefit from the U.S. program.
NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson met with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for the first time today at the Pentagon, discussing a range of issues pertinent to the alliance including peacekeeping forces in the Balkans, missile defense and the European Security and Defense Identity.
Rep. Bob Stump (R-AZ), the vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, was nominated today by House leaders as the next committee chairman, according to Stump's office.
As early as this week, the Defense Information Systems Agency will unveil a plan that will allow the Pentagon to declare the next version of the Defense Messaging System operational earlier than expected.