It may be left to the next administration to decide if the Marine Corps should assume a leading role in the Afghanistan war, but NATO's chief said today he would welcome an infusion of Marines in the country.
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It may be left to the next administration to decide if the Marine Corps should assume a leading role in the Afghanistan war, but NATO's chief said today he would welcome an infusion of Marines in the country.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) vowed again today to block any wartime supplemental funding request until the White House agrees to guidelines for troop withdrawals in Iraq.
Congressional conferees today quashed a plan to fold an additional $50 billion into the $459.6 billion fiscal year 2008 defense appropriations bill to finance wartime operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, opting to allocate those dollars in separate legislation expected to be considered later this week.
A multiservice task force headed up by U.S. Joint Forces Command is preparing to deploy to Iraq in the next few weeks to review ongoing intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance activities in the region, as part of an effort to draft a new theater-wide concept of operations for such missions.
The top Air Force official looking into last month's incident in which six nuclear-armed cruise missiles were mistakenly transported cross-country by service personnel has requested an extension of his investigation, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne told reporters today.
Top Senate Democrats are rethinking their approach on Iraq after Republican senators today defeated legislation that would have set a hard deadline to change the mission of U.S. troops deployed there.
Dueling Army and Air Force medium- to high-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle programs will be condensed into a single acquisition program under the authority of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, according to a Sept. 13 memorandum from Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England.
Program auditors from the Government Accountability Office have sustained a second round of industry protests filed against the Air Force over its selection of the Boeing-built HH-47 as the service's new combat search and rescue helicopter, according to a GAO statement released today.
As debate continues over when the United States should redeploy troops out of Iraq, regional powers like Iran and Syria are already jockeying for political position among the country's leaders in anticipation of a post-occupation Iraq, according to senior U.S. intelligence officials.
Air Force acquisition officials now expect to announce the winner of its next-generation aerial tanker platform competition by the end of 2007, nearly three months behind the service's originally anticipated award date, according to sources and documents.
House Democrats are preparing to attach three key amendments to the chamber's version of the fiscal year 2008 defense appropriations bill, including a measure that calls for the complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq and Afghanistan within 60 days, a key architect of the plan told reporters today.
House appropriators plan to cut $100 million out of the Air Force's funding request for its combat search and rescue program, due to significant schedule delays related to ongoing industry protests, according to language drafted for the fiscal year 2008 defense spending bill.
The Air Force announced today that it is on track to increase the number of unmanned aerial vehicle combat patrols in Iraq and Afghanistan from 12 to 21 by the end of 2009, nearly a year ahead of what service officials had originally planned.
The Air Force is poised to increase its ranks of battlefield airmen to roughly 10,000 by fiscal year 2011 and may surge its total number of strategic airlift tails to just over 300 aircraft to support an anticipated troop increase for the Army and Marine Corps, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. T. Michael Moseley said today.
One of the two industry teams that lost out last year on a lucrative development deal to build the Air Force's new combat search and rescue helicopter today announced it has filed a bid protest with the Government Accountability Office over the service's latest attempt to get the program back on track.
Pentagon officials told lawmakers this week that four major acquisition programs are essential to national security and must continue despite major cost increases, InsideDefense.com has learned.
Auditors from the Government Accountability Office today provided some clarity on their decision to dismiss a number of secondary competition issues that were cited, but never addressed, in two industry protests filed against the Air Force's combat search and rescue helicopter program, according to a recently released report.
The Air Force's No. 2 official in charge of plans and programs has been pegged by President Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates to head Pacific Air Forces, the Pentagon announced today.
Congressional conferees have agreed to legislative language that funnels more than $95 billion into the Pentagon's budget to finance ongoing combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also establishes time lines for U.S. troop withdrawals from the Iraqi theater, House and Senate appropriators said today.
While all proposals for the Air Force's KC-X tanker replacement program have yet to be received and evaluated, the air service fully expects the burgeoning competition and subsequent contract award to be the subject of a protest review by the Government Accountability Office, according to one senior service official.