Friday, May 16, 2025
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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.
Four Marine Corps general officers have been nominated for promotion, the Pentagon announced today. President Bill Clinton has forwarded their names to the Senate for consideration.
The Marine Corps has delivered to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) a $215 million, 10-item list of readiness requirements the service cannot afford to finance in fiscal year 2000.
President Bill Clinton today gave the attorney general's office the lead in preparing the United States for a possible terrorist attack with a weapon of mass destruction.
In a move aimed at strengthening its undersea warfare efforts, the Navy has closed the program executive office for undersea warfare and shifted its responsibilities to the program executive office for submarines.
The Defense Department announced today the establishment of the Defense Contract Management Agency, which will have responsibility for all DOD contract management.
Lt. Gen. John Costello, commander of the Army's Space and Missile Defense Command, said today he was "surprised" by Russia's use of ballistic missiles against Chechen rebels.
The commander of the Army's missile defense programs said a sea-based national missile defense system -- being touted by senior Navy officials and a group of congressional and academic backers -- may not be as easily achieved as some press accounts have suggested.
Air Force Secretary F. Whitten Peters told a Senate committee yesterday that the cost of the C-17 airlifter will remain steady if the service is allowed to use money appropriated last year for a 15-aircraft buy, even though it will only purchase 12 planes in fiscal year 2001.
Defense Secretary William Cohen last night signed two new deployment orders sending an Army long-range reconnaissance company to Kosovo and 14 tanks to reinforce an armored company now stationed in Macedonia, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today.
Over the past four years the Marine Corps has seen dozens of EA-6B pilots leave the service because of an increasingly heavy workload and the lure of higher-paying jobs with commercial airlines.
The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization can shave dollars off its numerous radar programs by focusing on common hardware and software and adopting an "open" design architecture for each program, an internal study team has told BMDO Director Lt. Gen. Ron Kadish.