Friday, May 10, 2024
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation today that would establish a national tracking system for using, storing and transporting radiological sources to reduce the chances they could be stolen by terrorists seeking to make a "dirty bomb."
The United States should seek a U.N. Security Council resolution rejecting Baghdad's conditions on the use of U-2 surveillance flights to aid weapons inspectors working in Iraq, according to two key Democratic senators.
President Bush plans to nominate Stephen Cambone to be the Defense Department's under secretary for intelligence and Linton Brooks to head the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration, the White House announced today.
Retired Adm. Harold Gehman has been picked to lead an independent panel of military, Federal Aviation Administration and NASA officials investigating the loss of the space shuttle Columbia this past weekend, U.S. Joint Forces Command announced yesterday.
The Defense Department yesterday signed an agreement with one of the country's largest networks of community blood centers to supplement the military's blood supply in the event of war against Iraq.
A new subcommittee on terrorism has been added to the House International Relations Committee, Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL) announced yesterday.
The Joint Staff has begun circulating for comment proposed revisions to rules governing the way the services and agencies identify warfighting requirements.
The Senate today approved the nomination of Tom Ridge as the nation's first homeland security secretary.
The Pentagon is studying what it would take to keep a large force forward deployed in the Persian Gulf region over the next several months, as the United Nations and the Bush administration weigh a potential strike against Iraq, according to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers.
The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee today unanimously approved the nomination of Tom Ridge as the nation's first homeland security secretary.
Five universities have renewed contracts with the National Nuclear Security Administration to develop computer simulations that support the Stockpile Stewardship Program, an effort to maintain the nation's nuclear arsenal without physical testing, NNSA announced yesterday.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) yesterday picked Rep. Christopher Cox (R-CA) to chair the newly created Select Committee on Homeland Security.
The University of California today announced major management changes at Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, including the resignation of Director John Browne.
The United States should revamp its relations with North Korea, taking into account the North's desire to build nuclear weapons, and acute problems the country has providing for its citizens' basic needs, according to a letter Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) sent to President Bush this week.
In its latest annual report, the Gilmore Commission is calling on lawmakers to establish an independent commission that would recommend ways to protect U.S. critical infrastructures.
The Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration will eliminate a layer of management and cut its federal workforce by 20 percent by the end of fiscal year 2004, NNSA announced yesterday.
As a top homeland security priority, the president should create an independent agency to consolidate the government's counter-terror intelligence "fusion and analysis" functions, the Gilmore Commission concludes in a report released today.
Officials at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA, announced today the creation of a lab office that will support the new Department of Homeland Security.
The Energy Department awarded IBM a $290 million multiyear contract today to build the two fastest supercomputers in the world at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA.
Three senators are calling on the General Accounting Office to conduct an expedited review of the Defense Department's commercial satellite procurement practices.