Sunday, November 16, 2025
The bill for repairing the Aegis destroyer Cole (DDG 67), severely damaged in a terrorist attack last October, has reached $243 million, $93 million above what Congress appropriated for the job last November, a Navy spokesman told InsideDefense.com today.
Dov Zakheim, President Bush's pick to be the next Pentagon comptroller, told a Senate committee today he would reorganize the comptroller's office and make reforming the Defense Department's ability to produce clear and accurate financial statements a top priority if he is confirmed.
Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. William Fallon has approved a plan that assigns budget responsibility for antiterrorism and force protection programs to two offices on the Navy staff, according to a senior service official.
Since last October, a joint Defense Department task force has been painstakingly examining scores of military aircraft and weapons to see if certain aluminum parts are defective, according to sources and documents.
Bail Aerospace and Technologies and General Dynamics Government Systems today won a $260 million contract from the Air Force to support the Measurement and Signature Intelligence exploitation program.
The Navy announced today that it is officially extending the second developmental phase through May for the ship that will serve as the service's 21st century destroyer.
The Defense Department announced today that Lockheed Martin has won a $110 million contract for improvements to 12 NAVSTAR global positioning system satellites, changes that will incorporate a new military signal on the satellites.
The chorus of voices calling for a fiscal year 2001 defense supplemental bill is growing louder.
Boeing's Joint Strike Fighter team announced today that it has successfully flown its X-32B short takeoff and vertical landing demonstrator for the first time.
In putting together the fiscal year 2001 defense budget request last year, Pentagon budget planners were counting on a supplemental appropriations bill to supply funding to carry some commands through the final two quarters of the fiscal year, Pacific Command Commander-in-Chief Adm. Dennis Blair told a Senate committee this morning.
The House today approved a Republican budget resolution for fiscal year 2002 that increases defense spending by $14.6 billion above FY-01 levels.
China's purchase and possible use of Russian-built Sunburn anti-ship missiles is not affecting the operations of the Navy's 7th Fleet in the Taiwan Straits, the commander of U.S. military forces in the Pacific told a Senate committee today.
Six months after the Navy destroyer Cole was attacked and severely damaged by a terrorist attack in the port of Aden, Yemen, the service is creating a permanent antiterrorism-force protection council that will shape the Navy's policies for protecting its sailors and their families.
The Defense Department announced today it has given Raytheon a $119 million contract modification for the production of Standard Missile-2 missiles and associated equipment.
The Defense Department overpaid contractors by $901 million in fiscal year 2000 and $670 million the year before, according to a General Accounting Office report released today.
Textron Systems has been given a $122 million contract modification to provide 1,200 submunitions for the Air Force's Joint Stand-Off Weapon program, the Defense Department announced today.
Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL), the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said this morning he sees the State Department's decision to expel 50 Russian diplomats on charges of spying as a clear indication the Bush administration will deal with Russia far differently than the Clinton administration did.
A bill introduced in the Senate yesterday would relax an up-front payment rule for Army arsenals to make the facilities more competitive with private industry, according to its sponsors.
The Air Force announced today it has awarded Northrop Grumman a $168 million contract modification for procurement of long-lead items to support one Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft.
Northrop Grumman announced today it has added Lockheed Martin and Boeing to its Space Based Infrared System Low contracting team.