The White House today announced President Bush's picks for several top Defense Department posts, including the deputy under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and the Army acquisition executive.
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John Liang is managing editor of InsideDefense and Inside Missile Defense. He has been with the IWP Defense Group since 1997. He holds a master's degree in international policy studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a bachelor's degree in languages from Georgetown University.
The White House today announced President Bush's picks for several top Defense Department posts, including the deputy under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics and the Army acquisition executive.
The Pentagon should improve its plans for the basing of combat aircraft during future conflicts in Europe, the General Accounting Office recommends in a report released today.
The Senate yesterday confirmed by unanimous consent Thomas White to be secretary of the Army and James Roche to be secretary of the Air Force.
House Budget Committee Ranking Member John Spratt (D-SC) today criticized President Bush's call to transform the military, saying the president's fiscal year 2002 budget won't be able to accommodate a large increase in defense spending.
The Justice Department has asked General Dynamics for additional information about the company's proposed acquisition of Newport News Shipbuilding, GD announced today.
The White House yesterday submitted Thomas Christie's name to the Senate to be the Pentagon's chief tester.
The change in the Senate Armed Services Committee leadership in the wake of this morning's party switch by Sen. James Jeffords (R-VT) will likely not affect spending on most Pentagon weapons programs, according to a national security analyst.
Lockheed Martin and Microsoft today announced they had made a pact to work together to pursue new business opportunities in the federal information technology market.
Greece has decided to delay consideration of contractor proposals for its main battle tank, according to a government statement released today.
Most defense stocks were not spared from today's downturn on the New York Stock Exchange, with some analysts attributing the decline in defense stocks to Sen. James Jeffords' (R-VT) pending party switch.
Lockheed Martin's Information Systems business unit has won a contract potentially worth more than $400 million to build and field the Army's next-generation laser-based training systems, the company announced today.
House Armed Services military readiness subcommittee Chairman Curt Weldon (R-PA) yesterday demanded answers on exactly how the United States relaxed its computer export laws to allow the sale of high-performance computers to China.
The Army's transformation effort will likely face funding and technological maturity challenges, the General Accounting Office said in a report released today.
Boeing has been awarded $136 million by NASA to study technology concepts that could eventually lead to a new generation of reusable launch vehicles, the company announced today.
Orbital Sciences' chairman and chief executive officer this week told investment analysts that his company expects better opportunities for business with the Pentagon than in the recent past.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the nominations of Victoria Clarke to become assistant secretary of defense for public affairs and William Haynes II to become the Defense Department's general counsel.
Defense contractor Lockheed Martin is not resting on the laurels of its recovery over the last 18 months from problems with some of its big-ticket Pentagon programs, the company's chairman and chief executive officer told investment analysts yesterday.
Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME) is not letting yesterday's defeat of an amendment that would require the State Department to appoint a "special coordinator" for North Korea policy stop him from re-introducing it as stand-alone legislation, an Allen spokesman told InsideDefense.com today.
New York-based L-3 Communications has agreed to acquire Chantilly, VA-based EER Systems for approximately $105 million, L-3 announced today.
NEW YORK -- Northrop Grumman Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kent Kresa today canceled a scheduled presentation at an aerospace finance conference here on the advice of corporate lawyers.