Monday, April 28, 2025
Roughly half of the $17 billion the Obama administration plans to save in its fiscal year 2010 budget request will come through reductions, terminations or other changes to defense programs, according to a senior administration official.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead today said he opposes a congressional call for an "incidents at sea" pact with Iran.
The Navy today awarded General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works division a fixed-price contract to build one Flight 0+ Littoral Combat Ship seaframe at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, AL.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates today praised the C-17 program -- but defended his proposal to stop buying the cargo planes.
Juan Garcia, a former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives and naval aviator who befriended President Obama when they were classmates at Harvard Law School, has been tapped for a senior job in the Navy.
Pentagon policy chief Michèle Flournoy today urged Congress not to oppose the termination of unnecessary weapons programs merely to sustain jobs, arguing that many other needed programs can keep industry working and bolster America's economy.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) concluded a confirmation hearing today for Defense Department posts by noting the committee will move “quickly” to advance the nominations of the candidates who testified:
President Obama noted today his administration will fund an organization called Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy or ARPA-E, which is modeled after the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Congress created ARPA-E a couple of years ago, but the Bush administration never funded it.
President Obama today announced plans to nominate Paul Stockton to be assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and Americas' security affairs.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates today signed the terms of reference for the Quadrennial Defense Review, laying out his guidance for a major assessment of defense priorities that is expected to shape the Obama administration's fiscal year 2011 defense budget request, InsideDefense.com has learned.
If the Quadrennial Defense Review curtails the military's amphibious capability it will not be based on an assumption that future wars will be far inland, away from shores, according to a senior military official.
Will the Nuclear Posture Review echo President Obama's goal of eliminating the world's nuclear weapons?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is poised to sign the terms of reference for the Quadrennial Defense Review and the Nuclear Posture Review, providing detailed guidance for studies that will shape the fiscal year 2011 budget, bolster the Pentagon's focus on asymmetric threats and reassess America's nuclear arsenal, a senior defense official said today.
The Obama administration is unlikely to publish an unclassified National Security Strategy before the end of this year's Quadrennial Defense Review, but an internal review of priorities by the National Security Council will inform the QDR, a senior defense official said today.
Pentagon officials undertaking the Quadrennial Defense Review will adopt a "pragmatic" approach to the debate over whether to cease describing cooperative security missions as irregular warfare, a senior defense official said today.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates made his entrance this morning at Camp Lejeune, NC, in a V-22 Osprey.
The White House yesterday sent the Senate the nominations of officials slated for top jobs in the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and the the intelligence community.
At 4:30 p.m. today, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Vice President Joe Biden were scheduled to meet with President Obama in the Oval Office.
For the record, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said this morning at the Naval War College that unmanned aerial systems would play a "big part" in the Pentagon's future.
NEWPORT, RI -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates today cast doubt on the need for the Marine Corps' Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle, underscoring the scrutiny the program will face in this year's Quadrennial Defense Review.