Friday, April 19, 2024
Following three days of computer hacker attacks on some of the largest e-commerce Internet sites, the Defense Department is checking the hard drive on every one of its computers to make sure they were not unwittingly used during the attacks.
Sen. John Warner (R-VA), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said yesterday he would block the approval of the Clinton administration's $2 billion supplemental request unless the administration provides Congress detailed information on allied contributions to the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-VA) said today he wants the military, within 10 years, to replace one-third of its tactical aircraft and ground combat vehicles with unmanned systems.
Defense Department officials expect to have in a few days information from the CIA inspector general's office that may result in the termination of the industrial security clearance for former CIA Director John Deutch, Defense Secretary William Cohen said today.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-VA) said today that CIA testimony to Congress on worldwide security threats to the United States and its allies "lays the foundation for increased defense spending."
The CIA and the FBI are working on a plan to get the intelligence community and local law enforcement agencies involved in proactively spotting terrorists and deterring them from carrying out espionage against the United States, CIA Director George Tenet told lawmakers today.
CIA Director George Tenet told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today that he couldn't guarantee that someone did not access the classified information that was on former CIA Director John Deutch's home computer, which was linked to the Internet.
The Defense Department will wait and see how talks between Navy representatives and Puerto Rico government officials over the Vieques training range progress before deciding whether the George Washington battle group will be able to train on the island, Pentagon spokesman P.J. Crowley said today.
The Defense Logistics Agency is saving money and reducing inventory by adopting commercial inventory management rules mandated by Congress three years ago, the General Accounting Office told Congress last week.
The White House announced late today that it has reached an agreement with the government of Puerto Rico to let the citizens of the island of Vieques, home to a U.S. Navy live-fire training range, decide whether the Navy and Marine Corps should continue to train there or leave by May 1, 2003.
The issue of whether the Navy continues to use the island of Vieques as a live-fire training ground could be settled by a vote of the island's residents, but the referendum plan offered by the Navy "is completely unacceptable," the mayor of Puerto Rico's capital city said yesterday.
Defense Secretary William Cohen said today the fiscal year 2001 defense budget the Clinton administration will send to Congress next month reflects lessons learned from the military's experience in Kosovo with money going toward the purchase of additional airborne electronic warfare assets and precision weapons such as the Joint Direct Attack Munition.
In April, the Energy Department will start sending letters to 800 employees and DOE contractors notifying them they have been selected as candidates for polygraph tests as part of the department's efforts to improve its security, a DOE spokeswoman said today.
As part of a security reform effort started last year by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, DOE's office of counterintelligence has begun an economic espionage review of DOE and DOD nuclear weapons contracting.
The Energy Department's top computer security officer yesterday said he was "99.5 percent confident" that DOE computers cannot transfer information from a classified computer to an unclassified one without clearing a series of steps DOE has put in place over the past year.
During a scheduled intercept test this October of the Army's Patriot missile, Army and Navy technicians will attempt to provide in-flight updates to the missile with radar data gathered by Aegis ships parked off the Florida coast using the Navy's Cooperative Engagement Capability system.
The Defense Department announced today it is revising and extending by five years a test program designed to encourage major defense contractors to subcontract more with small and disadvantaged businesses.
Andersen Consulting won a one-year contract last Friday to maintain and support information systems software for the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
Jacques Gansler, the Pentagon's top acquisition and research official, has formed a Defense Science Board team to judge the well-being of the defense industry and recommend changes in Defense Department policies to strengthen the industry.
Late yesterday the Navy announced two contract awards for the initial production of 54 multifunctional information distribution system (MIDS) low-volume terminals.