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The Senate last night rejected a plan pushed by Sens. John Warner (R-VA) and Carl Levin (D-MI) that would have attached the fiscal year 2006 defense authorization bill as an amendment to FY-06 defense appropriations legislation.
Senate Armed Services Committee leaders said today they might attempt to attach the fiscal year 2006 defense authorization bill as an amendment to the FY-06 appropriations measure.
The Base Realignment and Closure Commission today decided to keep open Ellsworth Air Force Base, rejecting a Pentagon plan to close the South Dakota facility.
A pact U.S. and Israeli defense officials inked today is merely "a first step" toward resolving longstanding differences about sharing military technologies, a Pentagon spokesman says.
The Bush administration's plans to establish a new Department of Homeland Security office to detect weapons of mass destruction on U.S. soil could backfire, leaving the federal government hamstrung in finding the lethal devices if they were deployed by terrorists, according to a prominent Senate Democrat.
A Defense Department report released today singles out five former Air Force and Pentagon officials for their involvement in the service's flawed tanker lease deal.
The House Armed Services Committee yesterday approved legislation that would require the Army and Marine Corps to fuse their requirements and pursue a single next-generation heavy-lift aircraft.
The nation's top intelligence official should install a new management structure to oversee the collection and analysis of data about potential threats against the United States, a presidential commission says in a recently released report.
Navy and Marine Corps officials say they need $3.7 billion to pay for activities that were left unfunded in the Pentagon's fiscal year 2006 budget request, according to documents sent to lawmakers this week.
The Navy should heavily stock its 2020 fleet with agile shallow-water combatants and beef up its presence in Pacific waters, according to a new congressionally mandated report.
The White House today sent lawmakers a $41 billion fiscal year 2006 spending plan for the Department of Homeland Security, an amount 7 percent higher than Congress gave DHS for FY-05.
Afghan officials are readying new strategies for combating the nation's burgeoning poppy industry and potentially bringing into the new democratically elected government members of the ousted Taliban regime, a top coalition official in the region said today.
Four prominent congressional leaders say they hope to have a compromise intelligence reform bill ready for both chambers of Congress to vote on when lawmakers return to Washington later this year for a lame-duck session.
Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program and EDS officials have agreed on a number of contract changes designed to ease schedule delays that have hounded the network's implementation.
President Bush's pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency today expressed alarm at some actions carried out by the Pentagon's policy shop in the buildup to last year's Iraq war.
Several Senate Democrats today aired their doubts about Rep. Porter Goss' ability to serve as the next director of central intelligence, questioning whether the nominee is truly reform-minded and willing to cast aside decades-old political allegiances.
U.S. officials leading reconstruction work in Iraq are considering a plan that would divert more than $3 billion from an $18 billion reconstruction fund toward security and job-creation initiatives, a State Department official said today.
U.S. officials should create a center that would act as the government's hub for counterterrorism planning, the 9/11 Commission says in its final report.
House and Senate conferees have agreed on a $416.2 billion fiscal year 2005 defense appropriations bill, providing $1.6 billion less than requested by President Bush earlier this year.
The United States should press Chinese leaders to take greater action to defuse North Korea's nuclear arsenal, according to the congressionally chartered U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.