Friday, October 11, 2024
Beset by problems in developing the booster rockets to power its developing ground-based missile defense system, the Missile Defense Agency and lead contractor Boeing are studying the program's future flight test schedule and will focus the test program over the next year on developing the boosters, an MDA official told InsideDefense.com this week.
The Navy has told Congress it has enough money in its future years defense plan to refuel eight of the 10 Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines that qualify for refueling.
The Senate today approved a $355 billion defense appropriations conference agreement for fiscal year 2003 by a 93-1 vote.
The Air Force may have to fly the modified 747 aircraft that carries the Airborne Laser missile defense system outside of the restricted airspace of the White Sands Missile Range, NM, and attack targets flown within the range, according to a recently released environmental study of the ABL's proposed ground and flight tests.
The Marine Corps has resumed anthrax immunizations for troops who are assigned to or may be deployed to higher-threat areas of Southwest Asia for more than 15 consecutive days.
The Bush administration's concurrent program and budget reviews of the military services' spending plans will yield consistent decisions on the direction of defense programs, a senior Pentagon official said yesterday.
Family members of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and at the Pentagon told a joint House and Senate intelligence committee today that an independent, blue-ribbon panel should be formed to fully investigate how the United States intelligence community failed to take steps to prevent the attacks.
The White House has asked Congress to approve an amendment to the fiscal year 2003 budget providing for a $3.8 billion, 15-year loan to Poland for the purchase of 48 Lockheed Martin built F-16 fighter aircraft.
The Air Force announced today it has given Lockheed Martin a $2 billion contract modification for a troubled space-based missile-warning program key to the Bush administration's plan for a missile defense system that can protect the United States.
A bill introduced in the Senate yesterday calls on the defense secretary to set up at least one full-time weapons of mass destruction civil support team in each state within a year to strengthen the nation's homeland defense.
The Marine Corps plans to assess the readiness of its warfighting units by measuring achievement of mission-essential tasks.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Jones has added his voice to the chorus of senior defense officials warning about the importance of safeguarding classified information.
Air Force officials will be providing far more oversight to the $8.4 billion Space Based Infrared System High program and will more rigorously examine the program's future progress, Air Force Secretary James Roche told InsideDefense.com today.
The Pentagon has set Aug. 24 as the date it will attempt a fourth consecutive intercept of an intercontinental ballistic missile target in a test of the Bush administration's burgeoning national missile defense system.
Senior Pentagon officials will likely decide the fate of the V-22 Osprey, now undergoing rigorous flight testing following two fatal crashes in 2000, next spring when they determine if V-22 production dollars should be included in the Marine Corps' fiscal year 2005 budget, the Pentagon's senior acquisition executive said today.
The Navy will publish a draft environmental impact statement Friday (Aug. 2) outlining the service's plans to base the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet on the East Coast, the Defense Department announced today.
The Missile Defense Agency announced today it would award a contract next May to a single, prime contractor for new targets and countermeasures used in future missile defense tests, a change from the current arrangement of relying on several contractors.
The Senate Appropriations Committee today approved a $355.4 billion defense bill for fiscal year 2003, making minor adjustments to the bill that had been passed Tuesday by the defense subcommittee.
The Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee this morning approved a $355.4 billion defense-spending bill for fiscal year 2003 in crisp, workmanlike fashion, the largest bill the subcommittee has ever passed, according to Chairman Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI).
Despite a Senate amendment to its fiscal year 2003 defense authorization bill that could restore an $814 million cut in missile defense funding, President Bush's top defense advisers would continue to recommend that he veto the bill, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a House committee today.