Monday, May 13, 2024
On June 21, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will host Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto and Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa for a Security Consultative Committee (SCC) meeting, at the State Department, said Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan.
Deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn and Brett Lambert, the Pentagon's manufacturing and industrial policy chief, will attend the 49th Paris Air Show later this month, but defense acquisition chief Ashton Carter and his deputy, Frank Kendall, will not be attending, Defense Department spokesman Col. David Lapan said.
House appropriators are concerned that the Pentagon continues to underfund its corrosion mitigation and prevention requirements, according to a document reviewed by InsideDefense.com.
Buying affordable high-end weapons and sustaining the fragile defense industrial base remain key priorities as the Pentagon seeks to cut defense spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming years, the military's top officer said today.
Army acquisition executive Malcolm O'Neill has announced he is resigning due to “personal reasons,” according to an internal memo.
Late yesterday, a month after President Obama announced his intentions, the White House sent the Senate the nominations for Leon Panetta to replace Robert Gates as defense secretary and Gen. David Petraeus to replace Panetta as head of the CIA.
Today in Deauville, France, President Obama and Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev announced several new key agreements, including a joint statement on counterterrorism cooperation and a joint report on the assessment of 21st-century missile challenges.
The Army has sent Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) a May 10 letter acknowledging congressional concerns about the potential impact of the service's combat vehicle modernization plans on the industrial base, but offering no detail on the substance of lawmakers' complaints.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates, due to step down next month, made a conscious choice to avoid recommending cuts to specific defense programs in a speech today at the American Enterprise Institute, according to Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is warning against sharply reducing U.S. commitments abroad and the size and capabilities of the military, while underscoring the need for some cuts in Defense Department overhead, personnel costs, missions and capabilities.
The Pentagon has blessed the Navy's plan to cancel the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program, setting a $192 million cost-target for the shutdown, according to a recently signed acquisition decision memorandum.
As the White House and Congress consider major cuts to security spending, the Pentagon's No. 2 acquisition official remains optimistic about the impact of those cuts on the department's budget and the defense industrial base.
The U.S. military's intervention in Libya has so far cost roughly $750 million, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said this morning.
Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn spoke Wednesday evening in New York about managing the defense enterprise in a drawdown as the Obama administration seeks to cut security spending by $400 billion by fiscal year 2023.
The Pentagon will review what led to the loss of a helicopter Sunday during the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, a senior defense official said today.
A small, elite team of U.S. forces killed Osama bin Laden Sunday in a firefight during a "surgical" and "especially dangerous" helicopter raid on a protected compound in the affluent Pakistani city of Abbottabad, senior administration officials told reporters in the wee hours Monday following President Obama's Sunday-night announcement of the killing.
Heeding a congressional mandate, the Defense Department is launching an independent assessment of its strategy to counter violent extremism outside the United States.
Cuts to non-discretionary elements of the federal budget would be highly controversial, but they should be on the table as the Obama administration and Congress seek to strengthen the U.S. economy by reducing the federal deficit, according to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy.
The Pentagon will team with Canada's defense ministry to develop ultra-wideband noise radar technologies that could provide a last line of defense against deadly terrorist attacks by covertly detecting concealed weapons, suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been meeting with senior defense officials about the Pentagon's upcoming budget-cutting review and plans to establish the outline of the review process by next week, Defense Department spokesman Col. David Lapan said today.