Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Jones has asked the service's inspector general to investigate whether the commanding officer of a Marine Corps V-22 training squadron based at New River, NC, asked Marines to falsify maintenance records on the squadron's aircraft, one of which crashed on Dec. 11, killing four Marines, the service announced today.
Deputy Defense Secretary Rudy de Leon gave final approval last week to a shift of $63 million from the services' fiscal years 2001 and 2002 budgets to the Single Integrated Air Picture office, which was set up last year to resolve interoperability problems among the major military commands.
Under a new plan approved last week by the Pentagon comptroller, the Navy will discard a building block development plan and fiscal year 2006 deployment date for the Theater Wide missile defense program to focus instead on fielding a fully capable and operational system about four years later.
After seeing its officer attrition rates reach 10.1 percent during fiscal year 1999, the Marine Corps is reporting the figure has dropped a full percentage point in FY-00 and that the service exceeded its congressionally authorized end strength of 17,888 officers by 50.
The Air Force announced today it has awarded three separate contracts totaling $350 million for support work on the F-22 Raptor program.
The Air Force will ask Congress for permission to reprogram $38 million into the $800 million airborne laser program for fiscal year 2001 to counter technical challenges involving "air worthiness testing, laser segment and beam control design," the service said today.
A coalition of defense industry trade groups is asking the incoming Bush administration to make several changes to how the Pentagon meets logistics and readiness needs, the most significant of which is the creation of a new deputy under secretary for logistics and material readiness.
The General Accounting Office is recommending the federal government review a proposed sale of Russian low enriched uranium to a private U.S. company to judge its effect on national security and the U.S. commercial nuclear fuel industry.
The Defense Department announced today that financial bonuses offered by defense contractors for recruiting and retaining high-tech workers will now be considered an allowable cost under revised government regulations.
Preliminary analysis of a flight data recorder shows that a Marine Corps V-22 Osprey that crashed Dec. 11 suffered a hydraulic malfunction before it plunged to earth in the wooded North Carolina countryside, the Marine Corps announced today.
The Defense Department has issued new guidelines to contracting officers for dealing with companies who have violated procurement and other federal laws.
The Marine Corps has put a call out to pilots of KC-130 aerial refueling aircraft, urging them to apply to fly its replacement, the KC-130J.
Defense Secretary William Cohen has selected retired Marine Corps Gen. John Dailey, a former assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, to be one of three members of a blue ribbon panel that will review the state of the V-22 program. Cohen made the announcement last Friday (Dec. 15), four days after a V-22 crashed in North Carolina during a training flight.
The Army grounded its fleet of AH-64 Apache helicopters late yesterday after discovering a "faulty tail rotor swashplate assembly," the service said in a statement released today.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki's vision for transforming the service from a predominantly heavy force to one that is lighter and more survivable will face many hurdles before it is realized.
The Army announced today it has given Sikorsky Aircraft a $105.9 million modification to an earlier contract to build 14 Black Hawk helicopters for the Colombian military's fight against narco-traffickers.
The Defense Department yesterday issued a new acquisition rule that takes into account the challenges a contractor may face in developing new military technologies and ties those challenges to the contractor's profit from a Pentagon contract.
Just hours after a Marine Corps V-22 Osprey crashed in the North Carolina countryside killing all four Marines onboard, Defense Secretary William Cohen began putting together a "blue ribbon" panel to review the state of the Osprey program, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense has determined the Marine Corps Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle is ready to begin engineering and manufacturing development, the service announced today.
The Navy has completed an environmental assessment of approximately 4,250 acres on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, clearing the way for transfer of the land to the government of Puerto Rico later this month.