Huntington Ingalls Industries President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Petters said today the shipbuilder is disputing the Navy’s decision to limit progress payments on a multimillion-dollar destroyer contract.
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Huntington Ingalls Industries President and Chief Executive Officer Mike Petters said today the shipbuilder is disputing the Navy’s decision to limit progress payments on a multimillion-dollar destroyer contract.
The Marine Corps has finalized the results of its 2010 force-structure review, setting the baseline for deeper force-structure cuts as the Pentagon moves to slash security spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade.
As the Defense Department moves to cut security spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade, it faces "fierce" internal debates about the impact on programs, Pentagon policy chief Michèle Flournoy said today.
The Chinese and Russian governments “will remain aggressive and capable collectors of sensitive U.S. economic information and technologies, particularly in cyberspace,” according to a report released today by the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive.
A new Defense Department report to Congress reiterates DOD's interest in pitching the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to India.
Congressional proponents of the Joint Tactical Radio System Handheld Manpack Small Form Factor (JTRS HMS) radio and the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) programs are urging House appropriators to stand their ground on fully funding the efforts when the fiscal year 2012 defense appropriations bill goes to conference.
The White House plans to nominate Michael Sheehan for the post of assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low intensity conflict.
The Asia-Pacific region looms large in the Army's latest look at the national security challenges of 2020 and beyond, according to the three-star general overseeing the effort.
Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley has resigned from his post, the Pentagon announced today.
Budget pressures will force the Army to cut back on holding costly conferences, Army Secretary John McHugh writes in an Oct. 14 memo.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will visit Indonesia, Japan and South Korea next week in his first trip to Asia as the Pentagon's chief.
On Oct. 21, National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon will travel to Beijing, China for meetings with Chinese leaders and policymakers, including Vice Premier Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo, the White House announced today, noting Donilon will discuss "a wide range of bilateral, regional and global issues of mutual concern."
The United States "still has an edge" in cyberspace over other countries such as Russia and China, according to U.S. Strategic Command chief Gen. Robert Kehler.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today he is "very concerned" about reports that surface-to-air missiles from Libya are being smuggled into Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
The Navy is slashing the number of multimillion-dollar catamarans it plans to acquire from Mobile, AL-based shipbuilder Austal USA, a move that could terminate the Joint High Speed Vessel program years earlier than previously planned.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today the Pentagon would accelerate its plans to be ready for a full budget audit from 2017 to 2014.
The future of U.S. national security in this century will be determined largely in the Asia-Pacific region, where the American military must maintain its presence despite China's development of new weapons that threaten U.S. power projection capabilities, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said today.
The Pentagon is weighing how to slash the cost of the nation's nuclear-weapons arsenal without eliminating one leg of the longstanding nuclear triad, outgoing Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said today.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta today announced some familiar names will be joining the Defense Policy Board as new members: Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state; Jamie Gorelick, former deputy attorney general; Jane Harman, former congresswoman (D-CA); retired Gen. James Cartwright, former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and retired Adm. Gary Roughead, former chief of naval operations.
The Army is objecting to multimillion-dollar cuts proposed by congressional appropriators to the Joint Tactical Radio System and the Warfighter Information Network–Tactical programs, according to two Army information papers.