Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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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.
The developmental schedule for the booster rocket that will propel the National Missile Defense kill vehicle into space has slipped further, likely pushing its first flight in an NMD intercept test to the middle of next year, two senior Defense Department officials acknowledged yesterday.
Energy Secretary Bill Richardson told a Senate committee today he is considering taking away security oversight for Los Alamos National Laboratory from the University of California in the wake a security breach at the lab involving two computer hard drives containing top-secret nuclear weapons information.
The Defense Department announced today that Maj. Gen. Joseph Cosumano has been nominated for a third star and the position of commanding general, U.S. Space and Missile Defense Command.
James Sheaks, slated to lead a new State Department arms control office, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today he feels the office should take a proactive stance in treaty verification and compliance issues, its main responsibility.
The National Security Agency is planning to hire a senior acquisition executive to steer the agency's massive information infrastructure modernization program, a first-ever move that shows the organization recognizes the significant technological challenges it faces as well as NSA's lack of expertise in the procurement field, senior DOD officials said last week.
Alliant Techsystems announced today it has teamed with Israel Military Industries to produce IMI's M971 120 millimeter Dual-Purpose Improved Conventional Munition (DPICM) for sale to the United States.
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.
After Republican members of Congress presented a bill in March mandating an audit of the Education Department, Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) has now introduced a similar bill mandating an audit of the Defense Department.
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.
Watervliet Arsenal, NY, has been selected as the central location for producing the Joint Lightweight 155 mm Howitzer, sources told InsideDefense.com 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.
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.
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.
Defense Secretary William Cohen announced yesterday that Rear Adm. Paul Gaffney has been nominated for a third star and the position of National Defense University president.
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.
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.
Starting tomorrow, 18,700 military personnel from the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Canada will participate in "Roving Sands '00," which the Army bills as the world's largest air and missile defense training exercise.
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 Army and Lockheed Martin have begun negotiating an engineering and manufacturing development contract for the Theater High Altitude Area Defense system following weeks of wrangling over the company's proposal, which was deemed unacceptable at first blush.