Congress will take action if the Pentagon does not speed its cumbersome security clearance process, House Government Reform Committee Chairman Thomas Davis (R-VA) today warned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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Congress will take action if the Pentagon does not speed its cumbersome security clearance process, House Government Reform Committee Chairman Thomas Davis (R-VA) today warned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The U.S. military has been successful in its ongoing duel with the private sector to recruit and retain information technology specialists -- a trend that likely will continue, according to a new RAND report.
The U.S.-led coalition's failure to stop unrest and violence that has plagued postwar Iraq can be traced to a sub-par reconstruction strategy devised by Bush administration officials -- a plan based on several assumptions that have since proved false, a former coalition official said today.
President Bush today sent to Capitol Hill a $40.2 billion Department of Homeland Security budget request to safeguard the nation against terrorist attacks and finance other activities performed by DHS agencies.
In its fifth and final report to the president and Congress, the Gilmore Commission has recommended providing U.S. Northern Command and the National Guard new capabilities to bolster the military's domestic response to terrorist attacks.
A coalition of 49 House Democrats expect to introduce legislation today urging Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to provide National Guard and reserve troops with equipment that measures up to gear used by active-duty forces.
The United States should step up reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan and press Pakistan to quash resistance efforts inside its borders to prevent "civil war and anarchy" from breaking out in war-torn Afghanistan, states a report released today.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers today called on the Syrian government to tighten its grip on the flow of terrorists crossing its 310-mile border with Iraq to launch attacks on U.S. and coalition troops.
The House Appropriations Committee today approved a slightly slimmed-down version of President Bush's fiscal year 2004 supplemental spending request, with the panel directing $86.9 billion to ongoing efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Democrats on the House Budget Committee today released a report forecasting long-term costs of U.S.
The White House yesterday formally sent to Capitol Hill an $87 billion fiscal year 2004 supplemental spending request that would fund ongoing military operations and reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A set of Defense Department information dissemination guidelines enacted earlier this year requires Pentagon components to submit annual reports detailing any claims that information made public failed to meet government-wide quality standards.
The Navy today awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. a block-buy contract worth up to $8.7 million for the construction of six Virginia-class submarines contingent on Congress granting the service multiyear procurement authority, Navy acquisition executive John Young announced.
The operational ownership of an early warning system designed to inform NATO members and a handful of other nations about missile launches has been transferred to Air Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, AFSPC said.