Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter starts a 10-day trip to the Asia-Pacific region tomorrow, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters today.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter starts a 10-day trip to the Asia-Pacific region tomorrow, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters today.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has accelerated by four months, to late summer, the deployment of the aircraft carrier John C. Stennis (CVN-74) and its strike group to the U.S. Central Command area of operations, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters today.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) responded yesterday to House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon's (R-CA) June 27 letter about the threat of sequestration under the Budget Control Act.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has notified Congress the Pentagon plans to spend roughly $64 million on vehicles, communications gear, unmanned aircraft and other equipment to provide counterterrorism assistance to African security forces.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today that he had not yet seen a recently completed Joint Staff report on lessons from the last decade of war.
The Defense Department, in coordination with Japan’s government, is proceeding with the introduction of MV-22 Ospreys to III Marine Expeditionary Force in Japan, DOD announced in a statement released shortly after midnight.
The White House strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 5856, the House's fiscal year 2013 defense appropriations bill, according to a statement of administration policy issued today.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) has issued a formal request for acting Office of Management and Budget chief Jeffrey Zeints to testify on July 18 about the mechanics and impact of automatic defense cuts known as “sequestration.”
The Defense Department has more than doubled the amount of progress payments being withheld from F-35 Joint Strike Fighter prime contractor Lockheed Martin due to deficient business systems.
Defense Department officials held a "director-level" meeting at the Pentagon this morning with officials from the Japanese defense and foreign-affairs ministries to provide an update on issues related to recent crashes of V-22 Osprey aircraft, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a statement.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has notified Congress the Pentagon plans to spend $75 million on night-vision devices, communications gear, military vehicles, drones and other equipment to provide counterterrorism assistance to Yemen.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) today predicted lawmakers would postpone offering a solution to the nation's deficit problems, but he urged them to do so quickly without more defense cuts and called on White House budget officials to testify this summer about plans for sequestration under the 2011 Budget Control Act.
The Defense Department will brief Japanese defense officials tomorrow on the status of investigations concerning recent V-22 Osprey crashes, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters today.
The Air Force has removed the commander of the 8th Special Operations Squadron, citing a lack of confidence in his leadership following last week's crash of a CV-22 Osprey.
The Pentagon's routine practice of shifting billions of dollars in the defense budget without seeking permission from Congress is raising concerns on Capitol Hill.
An Air Force CV-22 Osprey, assigned to the 1st Special Operations Wing, crashed at about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday evening during a routine training mission at Hulrburt Field’s Eglin Range, north of Navarre, FL, according to a statement released by the Air Force last night.
The Defense Department's spending on Canadian-made combat vehicles and other purchases from foreign entities dropped by $4 billion in fiscal year 2011 even as overall Pentagon procurement grew by double that amount, according to DOD reports issued this year and last.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) said today his best guess is the Pentagon will face additional cuts worth $10 billion annually over the next decade.
A Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator (BAMS-D) unmanned aircraft being tested by the Navy crashed today at 12:11 p.m. near Bloodworth Island in Dorchester County, MD, the service said in a statement, which notes there were "no injuries to civilians and no property damage."
The United States is withdrawing from Pakistan the team of U.S. negotiators that has been working for weeks to reach an agreement that would prompt the Pakistani government to reopen ground supply routes bordering Afghanistan, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told reporters today.