President Clinton yesterday signed a $14.8 billion foreign operations appropriations bill that cuts $7 million from Clinton's $134 million request for peacekeeping operations.
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President Clinton yesterday signed a $14.8 billion foreign operations appropriations bill that cuts $7 million from Clinton's $134 million request for peacekeeping operations.
A Northrop Grumman tiltrotor unmanned air vehicle crashed Saturday after successfully completing a 26-minute demonstration prototype flight test, the company and the Navy announced today.
Soon after signing the fiscal year 2001 defense authorization bill into law, President Clinton sent a memorandum to Defense Secretary William Cohen explaining how he wants an equal employment opportunity complaint section of the bill carried out by the Defense Department.
President Clinton today signed a $309 billion fiscal year 2001 defense authorization bill into law nearly one month after the start of the fiscal year.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vernon Clark announced today he has picked Rear Adm. Daniel Bowler to direct the Navy's warfare integration and assessment division.
House and Senate conferees have approved President Clinton's $55 million fiscal year 2001 request for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, which buys and ships heavy fuel to North Korea.
The Senate will soon consider a bill that would set up an inter-agency panel tasked with preparing the United States for bioterrorist attacks.
Following a 22-minute flight over the California desert this morning, Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter aircraft touched down at Edwards AFB, CA, completing what the company called a successful first flight test.
Gen. Yu Yongbo, a member of China's Central Military Commission, will make his first visit to the United States Wednesday as the head of a Chinese military delegation that will undertake an 11-day tour of U.S. military sites, the Pentagon announced today.
Litton Industries announced today it is exploring the sale of its advanced electronics group, which generated $1.6 billion in revenues in fiscal year 2000 and has about 9,500 employees.
Marine Corps information officials will soon be hitting the road to educate base commanders on the power of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, a multibillion-dollar information technology project. On Oct. 6, the Navy awarded a $7 billion contract to an EDS-led team to begin work on wiring Navy and Marine Corps installations for intranet services.
A special House oversight panel says that after months of foot-dragging, the Energy Department has taken steps to allow a new nuclear security office to meet its goal of improving security at the nation's nuclear weapons complexes.
A Foreign Emergency Support Team made up of investigators and security personnel from the FBI, the State Department and the Justice Department is arriving in Aden, Yemen to begin investigating yesterday's apparent terrorist attack on the Aegis destroyer Cole, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today.
Bath Iron Works has added Microsoft Federal Systems to its development team for the Navy's newest combat ship, the DD-21 Zumwalt Class destroyer, the company announced today.
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a study contract to examine how the Navy's Cooperative Engagement Capability could be integrated with ships of the Royal Navy, according to a statement the company released Oct. 6 out of Portsmouth, England.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mike Ryan last week released within the Air Force staff an 800-plus page classified study of the service's operations during the 78-day air war over Serbia.
Under the Pentagon's Foreign Comparative test program, the Navy will look at a berthing pod for submarines that may make sleeping on a sub more comfortable for some crewmembers, the Defense Department announced today.
The Marine Corps has started the process of determining how the V-22 tiltrotor aircraft will affect the surrounding environment if it is based at air stations in Arizona and California.
The Defense Department announced yesterday that Taiwan is asking for a $1.3 billion military arms sale that would include sophisticated air-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles, and an improved communications system for ground troops.
The Pentagon announced yesterday that Israel has asked to buy eight AH-64D Apache helicopters equipped with Longbow fire control radars, a deal worth up to $509 million.