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The Department of Homeland Security will create a database by the end of this year listing the nation's most critical infrastructure in an effort to guard against terrorist threats, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said yesterday.
President Bush yesterday submitted a $9 billion budget request to Congress for the National Nuclear Security Administration to fund nuclear weapons stewardship, nonproliferation programs and work on naval reactors.
The White House today unveiled a new homeland security presidential directive establishing a national policy for protecting the food system from terrorists and natural disasters.
President Bush today sent to Congress a $401.7 billion defense budget request to fund the war on terrorism and efforts to retool the military for the 21st century.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has asked Pentagon officials to carefully weigh the contribution the state can make to national security as they head into the next base closure and realignment round.
U.S. Joint Forces Command next week will kick off the first in a series of events designed to find out if the Defense Department's "joint national training capability" will by ready for initial use this October.
The Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation yesterday released a primer on network-centric warfare that places this approach to military operations in the center of efforts to revamp the military for the 21st century.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has chosen four individuals to review the military trials of suspected enemy combatants caught in the war against terrorism, the Pentagon announced today.
The Pentagon announced today that Stephen Younger will resign as director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency on Feb. 27, 2004. His successor has not been named.
President Bush today signed a fiscal year 2004 appropriations bill that includes $6.3 billion for National Nuclear Security Administration weapons activities and another $1.3 billion for nuclear nonproliferation work.
House and Senate lawmakers last week introduced resolutions that recommend suspending Russia's membership in the Group of Eight nations until Moscow demonstrates a greater commitment to the rule of law and democratic principles.
The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization's executive board today decided to suspend construction of two light-water nuclear reactors in North Korea for one year.
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX) has re-introduced legislation calling for a review of the State Department to determine if it can be better organized as the nation conducts the global war on terrorism.
The House Select Committee on Homeland Security has hired Tom DiLenge as its new chief counsel and policy director, Chairman Christopher Cox (R-CA) announced today.
Responding to press reports that the Bush administration is planning to start withdrawing troops from Iraq next spring, Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO) yesterday outlined a series of steps to be taken before implementing such a drawdown.
The $87.5 billion fiscal year 2004 wartime supplemental signed by President Bush today establishes a new inspector general's office for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
The Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration has created a new organization within its nuclear nonproliferation directorate to oversee all of the agency's radiological threat reduction efforts at home and abroad, the agency announced today.
The Air Force Reserve's 302nd Airlift Wing has been pressed into service in the ongoing fight to contain deadly wildfires raging in Southern California.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge yesterday announced the publication of final maritime industry security rules crafted to guard the nation's waterways and ports from terrorist attack.
BOSTON -- The Pentagon's Office of Force Transformation plans to launch a microsatellite this winter in an experiment designed to explore ways of providing rapid and low-cost access to space.