The Army budget chief today stressed the service's concerns about the size of a pending fiscal year 2009 emergency supplemental request to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Monday, April 29, 2024
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The Army budget chief today stressed the service's concerns about the size of a pending fiscal year 2009 emergency supplemental request to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The readiness of the U.S. armed forces, and the Army in particular, is declining at an alarming rate, according to classified reports to Congress cited today by senior House lawmakers.
The pairing of sensors with a new concept for packaging and launching rockets promises to be one of the most significant innovations for the ground force spawned by the Army's Future Combat System (FCS), according to a key Army FCS technology evaluator.
The Army and Bell Helicopter have worked out an agreement to move forward with the troubled Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter, now expected to cost about $9 million per copy, according to Brig. Gen. Stephen Mundt, director of Army aviation.
Two Senate Democrats say they intend to offer an amendment to the fiscal year 2008 defense authorization bill aimed at maintaining the Army's participation in the Joint Cargo Aircraft program.
A House subcommittee today recommended cutting $867 million in funding for the Army's Future Combat System, as the panel began fashioning the first fiscal year 2008 defense bill under the new Democrat-controlled Congress.
Although the Army has begun restraining spending while it waits for emergency supplemental money, a top general said today that the service will not curtail training for troops slated to deploy to Iraq or cut items related to safety and health -- marking the first time an official from the service has discussed the issue publicly.
Two House lawmakers yesterday introduced bipartisan legislation that promises to enhance international collaboration in the development of homeland security technologies by creating a cooperative programs office at the Department of Homeland Security.
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman this week declined an invitation from lawmakers to offer recommendations for changing legislation that created the National Nuclear Security Administration in 2000, which some on Capitol Hill believe blocks efforts to enhance security at nuclear weapons facilities nationwide.
The United States must create a national biodefense strategy and remedy its deficient plans for recovering from a biological terror attack, which technological advances have made considerably easier to carry out, according to industry expert Tara O'Toole.
House Democrats should allow the proper committees and subcommittees to hold hearings or mark-ups on legislation before bringing those bills to the floor for a vote when they take control of the 110th Congress on Thursday, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said yesterday. King was the House Homeland Security Committee chairman during the 109th Congress.
Battelle has received a $250 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to manage the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center at Ft. Detrick, MD, the company announced this week.
Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), the incoming chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said today that strengthening the Army and Marine Corps will be one of the panel's top priorities when Democrats take control of the chamber in January.
The top U.S. negotiator on the so-called "Six-Party Talks" plans to meet informally with North Korean representatives this weekend before the official start of the talks on Dec. 18 in Beijing.
High-ranking members on the House International Relations Committee are calling for more bilateral engagement with North Korea, in support of the so-called "Six Party Talks," to verifiably end the country's nuclear weapons program.
The office responsible for enhancing and streamlining the federal government's security clearance system must take further action to improve what a new Government Accountability Office report concludes is an inefficient process.
A Department of Homeland Security office has awarded $113 million in contracts for "next-generation" hand-held or wearable radiation detection equipment that could help identify attempts to smuggle fissile material into the United States, DHS announced this week.
A branch of the Department of Homeland Security's own cost-benefit analysis shows the new radiation detection equipment it wants to buy and deploy for $1.2 billion is not worth the investment, the Government Accountability Office concludes in a recent report.
President Bush today signed the "Security and Accountability for Every Port" bill that authorizes an array of domestic and international initiatives aimed at protecting vital supply chains from terrorist attack.
A high-profile Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee has blasted port security legislation approved by Congress last week and sent to the president, fearing it allows too many holes through which a nuclear device could be smuggled.