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Sebastian Sprenger was the chief editor of Inside the Army until May 2016, where he primarily reported on land warfare and associated budgets, policies and technologies. A native of Siegen, Germany, he got is start in journalism at the now-defunct Westfälische Rundschau in Kreuztal. He studied at Universität Trier and elsewhere.
The House Armed Services Committee's fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill adds $308 million to the Defense Department's request for special operations efforts and establishes a congressional commission for critiquing the Quadrennial Defense Review, according to a summary of the bill released by the panel this morning.
Members of the House Armed Services Committee apparently found many of the Defense Department's legislative ideas from the past two months convincing.
The Defense Department is exempt from a recent White House requirement that all government agencies consider the impact of a hypothetical budget freeze for fiscal year 2011, according to an Office of Management and Budget official.
The Defense Department must comply with a recent White House requirement that all government agencies consider the impact of a hypothetical budget freeze for fiscal year 2011, according to administration officials.
Defense Department officials are eying a new kind of assistance for Iraq and Afghanistan beyond instructing the countries' security forces in tactical warfighting matters.
Defense Department officials have asked lawmakers to exempt combatant commanders' advisory groups from public-disclosure requirements if the panels include foreign officials, according to a legislative proposal sent to Congress earlier this month.
Lawmakers last week included language in the fiscal year 2010 defense authorization bill that could turn out to be a technical obstacle to realizing Bush-era basing plans for a European missile defense system in the near term.
White House leaders want each government agency, including the Defense Department, to outline at least five "significant" terminations, reductions and savings initiatives in their fiscal year 2011 budget plans that would bring agencies' costs to levels below those outlined in their FY-10 budget requests, according to a memo from Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag.
Two years ago, defense leaders summoned the Defense Science Board to take an independent look at the Pentagon's strategy to combat roadside bombs.
House lawmakers today unveiled legislation that would create a Stockpile Management Program aimed at placing restrictions on nuclear weapons development and guiding future reductions in the U.S. stockpile.
Defense Department officials plan to unveil a much-anticipated proposal for improving data security among Pentagon contractors handling sensitive government information later this summer, according to a Pentagon spokeswoman.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates yesterday told lawmakers he has renewed hope for a cooperation with Russia on a ballistic missile defense system that would protect Europe against Iranian missiles.
Defense officials have begun circulating a draft of the Pentagon's first-ever concept of operations for operational contractor support, designed as a baseline for identifying new requirements and a plan for institutionalizing the field in all Defense Department planning.
A Defense Department unit charged with securing weapons of mass destruction anywhere on the globe is keeping close tabs on developments on the Korean peninsula following a North Korean underground nuclear weapon test late last month.
According to a Washington Post article yesterday, the military's strategic communication efforts in Baghdad have a credibility problem.
Joint Staff officials are rewriting a key guidance document to formally shift the center of gravity for work on new warfighting concepts from the Joint Staff to U.S. Joint Forces Command, according to a defense official.
Defense officials have reported an 11 percent decrease in Defense Department contractors in Iraq between Dec 31, 2008 and March 31.
Defense officials were unwilling yesterday to illustrate the scenarios underlying a U.S. Joint Forces Command wargame under way in McLean, VA, so reporters participating in a teleconference about the drill resorted to prodding wargame leaders about general defense themes to see whether they played some role in the one-week event.
Officials at the Hawaii-based U.S. Pacific Command have big plans for saving energy and moving away from fossil-based fuels.
Defense officials want to know how the world's most advanced military would fare in fights where a crucial element of its might goes missing -- the network.