The House Armed Services Committee yesterday approved several measures aimed at tightening security at the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons labs, which have been rocked with security scandals over the past year.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
The House Armed Services Committee yesterday approved several measures aimed at tightening security at the Department of Energy's nuclear weapons labs, which have been rocked with security scandals over the past year.
The Navy announced this afternoon that it successfully tested the missile that will form the heart of the service's Area missile defense system, designed to protect ports, coastal airfields and troops moving ashore.
Lockheed Martin announced today it has won an $11.5 million contract to improve combat systems on the Navy's mine countermeasures and minehunter coastal vessels.
Despite the potential for security problems, the Pentagon's top acquisition official told a congressional panel today that the United States and Russia may be able to share pieces of their National Missile Defense designs and then build a different system to suit each country's needs.
The Army has chosen Leo Burnett Worldwide Ltd. to steer a new recruiting advertising campaign that will more aggressively target the African-American and Latino communities, Army Secretary Louis Caldera announced today.
Last month Naval aviation officials publicly announced the service's newest tactical aircraft, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, had cleared its final operational testing hurdle and was ready for fleet introduction. But the Super Hornet will have to clear one more obstacle before it begins the next chapter in naval aviation history -- an assessment of its effect on the environment.
The Navy announced today that it achieved a second successful flight test of its Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile, which is being developed to improve the service's ability to defeat air defense systems.
During a meeting of NATO's Permanent Joint Council next Wednesday, Russian military representatives will brief NATO officials on a missile defense proposal put forth by Russian President Vladimir Putin, NATO Secretary General Lord George Robertson told reporters this morning.
NATO Secretary Gen. Lord George Robertson told several senior U.S. senators yesterday that he believes member nations are "turning a corner" on defense spending and recognize the need to create a better balanced alliance to meet future threats.
Snowed under by an ever-increasing number of logistics information systems, the Marine Corps has issued a new logistics information technology policy that is intended to create an original technical architecture that will reduce the number of systems needed and the cost to maintain those systems.
The Navy announced today that the United Kingdom will be the first foreign partner in the development of the service's Cooperative Engagement Capability, a sensor-netting system designed to greatly improve naval air and missile defenses.
The Air Force is the only service that will see its procurement budget rise in the 2001-2005 future years defense plan over the 2000 plan, according to a new analysis by the General Accounting Office.
A software problem connected with the Standard Missile 2 forced Navy officials to scrub a test of the Area missile defense program scheduled for this morning at White Sands Missile range, NM, according to a Navy spokeswoman.
U.S. defense officials have asked their Russian counterparts to add ballistic missile threat analysis and a Russian boost-phase interceptor concept to a list of topics for discussion at a June 25-26 meeting, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today.
The Navy today announced it has signed a $9 billion multiyear contract with Boeing for full-rate production of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft.
The Senate yesterday included language in its fiscal year 2001 defense appropriations bill that adds $23 million to the Air Force budget for the development of an air-launched cruise missile that can fly beyond 1,000 miles.
The Navy's testing command yesterday approved fixes to the ground station element of a Marine Corps tactical reconnaissance pod and is recommending the program be cleared for fleet use, according to a Marine Corps official.
The United States and its allied partners need to develop new strategic thinking for conflicts in the post-Cold War world that rejects the notion that conflicts will lead to nuclear war and relies on the most decisive use of force used as quickly as possible, former NATO Supreme Commander Gen. Wesley Clark said today.
In a report delivered yesterday to the Senate Appropriations Committee, the General Accounting Office said the Defense Department needs to draw up a uniform method of determining the costs of overseas contingency operations.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been named chairman of a congressionally mandated commission that will examine the management and organization of national security space programs, the House Armed Services Committee announced yesterday.