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.
Sunday, December 8, 2024
Sunday, December 8, 2024
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.
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), the chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said today he wants to add money to the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile program to accelerate its production and is looking at the fiscal year 2000 supplemental appropriation as the vehicle to do it.
The Marine Corps' top aviation official said today investigators may recover by tomorrow the flight data recorder carried aboard an MV-22 aircraft that crashed late Saturday night in the Arizona desert, killing all 19 Marines on board.
China's acquisition of 16 Russian-built anti-ship missiles has spurred the U.S. Navy to acquire some to test the defensive capabilities of its Aegis-equipped surface warfare fleet.
The Navy has notified Lockheed Martin Electronics and Surveillance Systems of Moorestown, NJ, that it is exercising a $55 million option on an existing contract for the installation, integration and testing of four Aegis weapon systems, the company announced today.
Saturday's crash of a Marine Corps MV-22 tiltrotor aircraft in the Arizona desert will tighten even further a program schedule the service says has very little flexibility.