House lawmakers have formed a bipartisan Defense Energy Working Group, which will study and recommend policy solutions to reduce the Pentagon's fuel usage.
Monday, October 14, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
House lawmakers have formed a bipartisan Defense Energy Working Group, which will study and recommend policy solutions to reduce the Pentagon's fuel usage.
The White House Office of Management and Budget estimates the Pentagon will need another $50 billion in emergency spending during fiscal year 2008 to pay for global war on terror operations.
Boeing delivered 24 military aircraft in the second quarter of 2006, three fewer than in the first quarter, the company announced today.
The National Guard Bureau needs to clarify the types of disasters to which Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams can respond, according to a report released today by the Government Accountability Office.
Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) plans to introduce an amendment to the fiscal year 2007 defense authorization bill directing the president to reach an agreement with the Iraqi government for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops in the war-torn country by the end of this year.
The Defense Department will have assigned a "defense coordinating officer" to each of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's 10 regional offices by June 1, a top Pentagon official announced this week.
Several administration officials told a House committee today they need more staff and more accurate projections in order to process government security clearances quicker.
A former U.S. Central Command chief expects Iran eventually will bow to U.N. Security Council pressure and halt its uranium enrichment activities, if Russia and China, on the one hand, and a group of other council members, on the other, bridge differences on how to deal with Tehran.
The former head of U.S. Central Command this week criticized methods being used by the United States in training and equipping Iraqi soldiers, saying more focus must be placed on uniting Iraqi citizens instead of on "making the Iraqi military a small version of ourselves."
To better prosecute the ongoing war on terrorism, the United States should focus more resources on combating groups like al Qaeda in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia, Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) said today at the National Press Club in Washington.
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency today notified Congress of a possible $147 million sale to Japan of new Airborne Warning and Control System equipment.
The Pentagon plans to complete a "Chemical Biological Contamination Survivability Policy" by the end of this month, according to Dale Klein, assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs.
Boeing delivered 27 military aircraft in the first quarter of 2006, the company announced today. Total production in the quarter rose by three from its first quarter deliveries in 2005.