Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Three members of Russia's lower house of parliament said today if the United States moves ahead with plans to field a national missile defense it would cause a "destabilization" of the two countries' arms-control atmosphere.
Citing the Marine Corps' increasing need for intelligence as it moves closer to its future warfighting plan, Commandant Gen. James Jones has created a separate intelligence department within Marine Corps headquarters.
A Pentagon committee that studies issues affecting women in the military is recommending the Navy redesign its newest attack submarine to accommodate female sailors in the future and, in the short term, assign female officers to ballistic missile submarines to begin integrating women into the submarine service.
An aggressive program to lure more naval pilots into the EA-6B community appears to be paying off for the Marine Corps, a Marine Corps spokeswoman told InsideDefense.com today.
A Pentagon spokesman today labeled two Chinese fighter aircraft observing a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft in international airspace off China's southeast coast a "non-event."
National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden has nominated Deputy Director Barbara McNamara for the position of Special U.S. Liaison Officer, London, England, NSA announced today.
The Pentagon comptroller has given the Army $220 million to tide the service over until Congress passes, and President Clinton signs, the fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriations bill that will pay for the ongoing Kosovo peacekeeping operation, Army Secretary Louis Caldera told InsideDefense.com today.
Alarmed by a rash of off-duty automobile accidents that have claimed the lives of 42 Marines since the beginning of fiscal year 2000, the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps has formed an executive safety board to examine how to raise safety awareness across the entire Marine Corps.
One month ago Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Jones ordered a two-day, service-wide standown to focus on retaining those Marines whose enlistment time was coming to a close.
Bath Iron Works and Lockheed Martin, leaders on a team competing for the Navy's DD-21 destroyer program, announced today that IBM and Cisco Systems have joined them in their pursuit of the lucrative shipbuilding program.
The head of Marine Corps aviation said today the V-22 that crashed in the Arizona desert April 8 had all major systems -- engines, drive shaft and propellers -- operating normally when it went down.
Twenty-five senior Senate Republicans have told President Bill Clinton the Senate will reject any ABM agreement the administration reaches with Russia if it trades Russian consent to a U.S. National Missile Defense system for U.S. "reaffirmation of a new, very limiting, legally binding accord."
During the long, dark days of the Cold War, the Navy's P-3 antisubmarine aircraft logged thousands of hours patrolling the coastlines of the United States and its allies in search of Soviet submarines.
Sometime in the late 1980s, the lines marking commercial and military technology development crossed, with the commercial sector taking the lead in many areas for the first time in history.
The Navy has begun work on an environmental analysis of the western quarter of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques, site of a Navy training range, in preparation for turning the land over to Puerto Rico if the island's populace votes to close down the range.
Despite a generally positive view of the Marine Corps among active duty and reserve Marines, a 1999 Marine Corps survey indicates sexual harassment of female enlisted Marines and officers is on the rise.
Twenty-seven House Republicans, including Majority Leader Dick Armey (TX) and Majority Whip Tom DeLay (TX), are pressing Defense Secretary William Cohen to send Congress a report on the technical feasibility of fielding a naval component of the National Missile Defense system.
A recently completed NATO "troop-to-task" analysis supports the current requirement of 31 battalions for the Kosovo peacekeeping operation, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today.
The price tag for developing the Pentagon's National Missile Defense system has grown by more than $3 billion, according to the latest cost estimates released by the Defense Department today.
The House Budget Committee will agree to the Senate's higher level of defense spending for fiscal year 2001 -- about $3 billion more than the House approved -- and the reestablishment of a so-called firewall between defense and non-defense spending, a committee spokesman told InsideDefense.com.