Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The Senate is calling for the global extension of U.S. nonproliferation efforts to secure nuclear materials, according to an amendment adopted by unanimous consent May 19 to the upper house's fiscal year 2005 defense authorization bill.
The Pentagon told Congress this week that a troubled Air Force space modernization program is vital to national security and that the program's cost overruns can be managed, an Air Force spokeswoman told InsideDefense.com today.
A panel of experts on electromagnetic pulse weapons will not testify as expected tomorrow before the House Armed Services Committee.
Fifteen members of Congress are seeking to postpone until 2007 the next round of military base closures and realignments.
A Space Based Infrared System High program official told InsideDefense.com today that a "replanning" of the missile-launch warning effort "will impact the program's cost and schedule."
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has ended months of talks with Space Imaging, a Thornton, CO-based commercial satellite imaging company, over a second "NextView" contract, an NGA official said today.
An accidental nuclear explosion in India and Pakistan could spark a nuclear war, warns a new report, "Reducing Nuclear Dangers in South Asia," released by the Henry L. Stimson Center today.
The Senate confirmation hearing for Francis Harvey's nomination as the Pentagon's chief information officer is scheduled for Jan. 28, according to a congressional source.
An international crackdown on shipments of weapons of mass destruction is yielding results, a senior Pentagon official told reporters today.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would welcome U.S. "cooperation" on stemming the flow of arms and anti-coalition fighters through Syria that are destined for Iraq, according to Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), who recently met with Assad while on a 10-day Middle East trip.
A simulation of a multicity terrorist attack led by the Department of Homeland Security last May found massive gaps in the nation's communications infrastructure during crisis situations, according to a DHS after-action report released in mid-December.