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The Defense Department is entering into the final stage of a three-phase approach to tackling the financial management problem that has vexed nearly every defense secretary, Pentagon Comptroller Bill Lynn told House lawmakers today.
The Marine Corps' top aviation official expects to receive the Judge Advocate General report on the fatal April 8 MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor crash as soon as this week, and could release further details in the near future.
Acknowledging the many problems military forces face with land mine threats that have loomed since World War II, Army and Marine Corps officials told an industry conference this week they have several solutions to the problem but little money to put behind them.
A group of Senate and House Democrats yesterday criticized the Army for losing track of almost $900 million worth of equipment.
A senior Clinton administration official said yesterday the United States wants to maintain a nuclear deterrence-based strategic relationship with China and does not want the deployment of a limited National Missile Defense system to upset that equation.
While noting that a Defense Department report on government performance has done a good job defining DOD's mission and how it plans to meet its goals, a Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee report released yesterday says DOD so vaguely defined its mission that any action taken can be construed as meeting those goals.
By a vote of 367-58, the House today approved the $288 billion defense appropriations conference package for fiscal year 2001.
A test pitting the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 theater missile defense system against a cruise missile target was canceled this morning, according to Army sources.
The president has picked an Army general for the Joint Staff's top command, control, communications and computers position, the Defense Department announced today.
More than a year has passed since the Senate battled the Clinton Administration over the creation of a new State Department arms control office, and while it has been officially up and running since February, James Sheaks, the man slated to run it, is still awaiting confirmation by the Senate.
In a message sent to all military commands yesterday, Deputy Defense Secretary Rudy de Leon said the Pentagon will take "all appropriate steps" to resume its full-scale anthrax vaccination program no later than January.
The United Arab Emirates has selected Lockheed Martin to produce and deliver an F-16 block 60 training system, the company announced today.
Navy and industry technicians are poring over data from a failed flight test of the Navy's Theater Wide missile defense system that took place on Friday.
The Commerce Department will release today the administration's new plan governing encryption exports, a strategy that removes restrictions on businesses wanting to sell U.S. security technology to all European Union members plus 10 other allied nations, sources say.
A House-Senate conference committee has agreed to terminate the Pentagon's Discoverer II program, congressional sources tell InsideDefense.com.
The Aerospace Industries Association is urging the Senate to vote on Permanent Normalized Trade Relations (PNTR) with China before the August congressional recess, according to a July 12 letter co-signed by the AIA and the Business Coalition for U.S.-China Trade.
President Clinton yesterday signed into law an $11.2 billion fiscal year 2000 emergency spending measure, but strongly criticized several items in the bill that affect military operations.
The Pentagon announced today that it is going back to a policy of not requiring anthrax immunization shots for troops who will be in high-risk areas for 30 days or less.
A key lawmaker has asked the Defense Department to suspend the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program until a "modern" vaccine is made available, according to a letter sent to the defense secretary yesterday.
After weeks of contentious parliamentary wrangling, the Senate today voted 97-3 to approve a $309.8 billion defense authorization bill for fiscal year 2001.