The Navy's sea-based missile defense system failed to shoot down a ballistic missile target yesterday in the skies off the coast of Hawaii, the Missile Defense Agency announced.
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Saturday, December 7, 2024
The Navy's sea-based missile defense system failed to shoot down a ballistic missile target yesterday in the skies off the coast of Hawaii, the Missile Defense Agency announced.
With an eye toward cutting personnel costs and eliminating duplicative efforts, the Marine Corps is combining its active and Reserve support organizations, which provide combat support to deployed units.
Despite an open-ended commitment of U.S. military forces in Iraq, Defense Department officials expect retention rates to remain high, the Pentagon's top personnel official said today.
An ongoing, internal debate over how the Defense Department uses and mobilizes reserve forces will be settled this summer and reflected in the 2005 budget request, the Pentagon's top personnel official said today.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) today asked the CIA to declassify the number of suspected Iraqi weapons of mass destruction sites the agency shared with U.N. weapons inspectors before the Bush administration went to war with Iraq.
The Army has announced its intention to award a contract for the next phase of the Aerial Common Sensor program, an airborne sensor that will locate, track and disseminate time-sensitive data to soldiers at all echelons.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Young (R-FL) today announced he has allocated $368.6 billion for the fiscal year 2004 defense bill, slightly more than $3 billion below what President Bush requested.
Upon his return from a trip leading a congressional delegation to North Korea, Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) said yesterday that government officials there did not balk at the prospect of moving toward compliance with several international agreements aimed at stemming the flow of ballistic missile technologies around the world.
Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) told InsideDefense.com today that he would talk with Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, about holding hearings on the intelligence information used by the Bush administration to make the case for war against Iraq.
The Missile Defense Agency should take a different approach to developing and fielding a $3 billion satellite system that will detect and track ballistic missiles in flight, an approach that could include delaying the initial launch from 2007 to 2008 and stopping work on existing satellites to focus more on new technologies, the General Accounting Office says in a new report.
In building the fiscal year 2005 defense budget, Pentagon officials will take a "significantly different" approach than that used in crafting prior-year spending plans, and will particularly stress that there be a minimum number of program changes, according to interim guidance issued May 12.
Coalition experts who are examining an Iraqi mobile laboratory discovered near a Kurdish checkpoint last month can find no other reason for its existence than to produce biological weapons, a top defense intelligence official said today.
As it begins to prepare its fiscal year 2005 budget request, the administration has doubled the number of Defense Department programs subjected last year to performance reviews, according to guidance issued yesterday.
Faced with the increasing size, complexity and operational strains of the modern battlefield and a finite number of Marine Corps forward air controllers, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Michael Hagee is changing current service policy and opening up more FAC slots to non-aviators.
The Marine Corps wants to have Common Access Cards -- the Defense Department's planned facility and computer security key -- distributed to all active duty personnel, selected reserves, civilian employees and eligible contractors by October, according to an internal message issued yesterday by Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Michael Hagee.
The Pentagon has told Congress a two-year-old restriction on spending NATO security program dollars to support the alliance's Partnership for Peace effort, which involves countries of the former Soviet Union, is having "considerable negative political consequences."
President Bush today will sign a $79 billion supplemental appropriations bill to pay for Operation Iraqi Freedom, a White House spokeswoman said.
Senior Defense Department leaders are asking coalition allies supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq to help provide security forces for Baghdad and other cities in the country as combat action starts to wind down, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today.
Victory in Iraq for U.S. forces will not necessarily come with the capture of Saddam Hussein or the complete control of Baghdad, and will likely occur later rather than sooner, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today.
The Army's civil affairs units have restarted Iraq's oil-for-food distribution program in the southern port city of Umm Qasr and are slowly starting to set up distribution centers in town throughout the country, Army Col. David Blackledge said today.