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BOSTON -- As part of ongoing efforts to enhance the Army's integration with joint forces, the service's Training and Doctrine Command has established a new course for general officers to teach them how to fight as joint force land component commanders, according to TRADOC chief Gen. Kevin Byrnes.
The Defense Department is revamping its Unified Command Structure to better serve senior leaders, including the president, in the evolving network-centric environment, a senior DOD information technology official said today.
National Nuclear Security Administration chief Linton Brooks this week appointed retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Thomas Neary to oversee security improvements at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM.
With funding from the Energy Department, Romania has returned to Russia highly enriched uranium the country had acquired from the Soviet Union, DOE announced yesterday.
A group of House Democrats is urging colleagues to support Senate-approved higher funding levels for certain Energy Department nonproliferation programs as lawmakers from both chambers hash out a final version of the fiscal year 2004 energy and water appropriations bill.
President Bush yesterday waived a congressional restriction on funding for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, a New York-based group that is building two light-water nuclear reactors (LWRs) in North Korea.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge today announced the creation of a U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team to help coordinate international efforts in response to cyberattacks across the Internet.
NATO's future rapid reaction force likely will be more capable and "probably more viable" than a separate European Union response force proposed by some officials on the continent, according to Air Force Gen. Charles Wald, deputy chief of U.S. European Command.
Members of a Defense Science Board task force on developing joint capabilities have been enlisted as advisers to former Pentagon acquisition czar Pete Aldridge's study group, which is looking at changing Defense Department practices to better integrate the armed services.
The Pentagon is asking fiscal year 2004 defense authorization conferees to drop a provision included in the House bill that would establish a commission on nuclear weapons policy.
The Pentagon is standing up five review panels to support Defense Department decision-makers in analyzing and prioritizing warfighting requirements for the future force.
The Defense Department this week released a "Special Operations Forces Posture Statement" that outlines five operational priorities for the highly trained warfighters in the ongoing global war against terrorism.
The White House yesterday released a statement of administration policy supporting passage of the House Appropriations Committee's fiscal year 2004 Department of Homeland Security spending bill.
To satisfy national security and space exploration requirements beyond 2010, the Energy Department must accelerate a program to re-establish domestic plutonium-238 production, according to a recently released DOE inspector general report.
The National Nuclear Security Administration's study on converting existing nuclear weapons for use against hardened and deeply buried targets is not intended to compete with the Defense Department's development of conventional "bunker busters," according to NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks.
A group of senior Democrats yesterday declared the Department of Homeland Security "broken" to the point where it cannot ensure adequate protection against biological terrorism.
The National Nuclear Security Administration's multibillion-dollar National Ignition Facility project achieved on May 30 another milestone by producing 10.4 kiloJoules of ultraviolet laser light in a single beam line, a world record for laser performance, the agency announced this week.
Two House lawmakers introduced a resolution today calling on the international community to press for vigorous inspections of Iran's nuclear program.
The Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded $466 million to two companies to begin shutting down the last three plutonium-production reactors in Russia, DOE announced today.
NATO's Defense Planning Committee has appointed U.S. Joint Forces Command chief Adm. Edmund Giambastiani to serve as supreme allied commander for transformation.