Defense cuts are "absolutely" on the table, Eric Cantor (R-VA), the House majority leader, said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Defense cuts are "absolutely" on the table, Eric Cantor (R-VA), the House majority leader, said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates -- who recently visited China, Japan and North Korea -- and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are slated meet with President Obama in the Oval Office late this afternoon, a couple of hours before the president hosts a private dinner for China's president, Hu Jintao.
The Marine Corps intends to develop an Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle replacement that costs no more than $12 million per copy, Lt. Gen. George Flynn, the head of Marine Corps Combat Development Command, told reporters today.
The Marine Corps will release three distinct requests for information to develop interim and long-term solutions to its vehicle needs following the Pentagon's decision to kill the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle program.
The Pentagon has put the Marine Corps' troubled version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter on probation, pledging to terminate that variant if it fails to overcome its problems in the next two years, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today.
Congress is directing the Defense Department to publicly release more of the many unclassified reports it sends Capitol Hill each year, but the Pentagon will be able to bypass the new requirement on national security grounds.
The April 9 CV-22 Osprey crash in Afghanistan was due partly to mistakes by the crew, but engine trouble contributed to the mishap, too, according to a report released Thursday night by Air Force Special Operations Command.
The Government Accountability Office is urging the Pentagon to monitor and assess corrective actions stemming from a Defense Department corrosion study of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
The Pentagon's strong desire to avoid the House's proposed year-long continuing resolution (CR) trumps the department's previous objections to funding the continued development of an alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, according to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
The Navy today published basing decisions for the F-35B, the Marine Corps' short-takeoff-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) version of the Joint Strike Fighter.
The Senate's fiscal year 2011 omnibus spending bill provides $667.7 billion in new discretionary spending authority for the Pentagon, including $157.8 billion for overseas contingency operations -- a recommendation that falls $10.3 billion below the president's base budget request.
Language that would approve the Navy's new dual-buy approach for the Littoral Combat Ship program has been included in the House's draft continuing resolution for funding the government until Sept. 30, 2011.
The American Shipbuilding Association's board of directors announced today its decision to dissolve the organization effective Dec. 31.
Despite fierce fighting in a key Taliban holdout in Afghanistan, Marine Commandant Gen. James Amos is encouraged by what he's heard from the two-star Marine commander leading the effort.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz today dismissed the idea of redeploying tactical nuclear weapons to South Korea following related comments earlier this week by South Korea's defense minister and today's shelling of a South Korean island by North Korea.
The White House is strongly condemning North Korea’s artillery attack today on the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong. In a statement released early this morning, the administration urged North Korea to “halt its belligerent action and to fully abide by the terms of the Armistice Agreement.”
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell told reporters today the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program will go before the Defense Acquisition Board on Monday for an assessment of the program's ongoing technical baseline review.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates today argued against cutting the defense budget to address the massive federal deficit.
On Nov. 19, Lt. Gen. Mark Welsh, the CIA’s associate director for military affairs, will wrap up over two years of “exceptional service” to the agency, CIA Director Leon Panetta said today in a note to agency officials.
Continuing efforts to boost the Defense Department's buying power, Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter has issued the armed services new guidance designed to improve the acquisition of multibillion-dollar weapon systems.