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Gen. Wesley Clark, the supreme allied commander in Europe, has asked NATO officials for three additional battalions from NATO's strategic reserve force in Kosovo to quell clashes in the town of Kosovska Mitrovica, a senior Defense Department official said today.
Former Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch told the agency's inspector general that he intentionally created secret files on unclassified computers to prevent other CIA officials from gaining access to them through the agency's computer network, according to an unclassified version of a CIA IG report into Deutch's improper handling of classified information.
The Defense Department announced today its plans to spend $27 million this fiscal year to correct an imbalance in base housing allowance payments.
Behind its high-profile public relations campaign for "a few good men," the Marine Corps is waging a feverish battle to keep young Marines in uniform.
The Defense Department will make no force level or deployment changes to U.S. military forces stationed in the Western Pacific following China's warning that it will use force against Taiwan if the island's leaders continue to stall on reunification talks, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
NATO allies have serious reservations about the United States' pursuit of a National Missile Defense system, Gen. Wesley Clark, commander-in-chief of U.S. European Command, told a House committee yesterday.
President Bill Clinton has nominated Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Lester Lyles to become commander-in-chief of Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, the Pentagon announced today.
The Pentagon has two separate teams examining a stack of Defense Department-related documents the CIA found on the home computer of former CIA Director John Deutch.
The Pentagon yesterday announced possible foreign military sales to Israel, the Netherlands and Finland totaling $645 million.
Despite specific benchmarks set by the Clinton administration for withdrawing U.S. troops from the Balkans, those troops can be expected to remain in the region until Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic is removed from power, the commander of all U.S. Forces in Europe told a congressional committee today.
The Air Force yesterday selected TRW and Lockheed Martin as the finalists for the Integrated Space Command and Control contract, an award expected to be worth about $1.8 billion.
The Pentagon's top missile defense official told a congressional committee today that despite a failed intercept test last month, his agency is still on schedule for a June review of whether to deploy a system designed to protect the United States from ballistic missile attack.
Seven Democratic senators last week called on President Clinton to delay a decision on whether to deploy the developing National Missile Defense system.
The State Department today gave formal notice that it was suspending the arms import licenses of two Czechoslovakian companies, two Czech citizens, and a Kazakhstani citizen.
The National Security Agency's senior civilian official will soon be leaving her post for an overseas billet, according to intelligence community sources.
Officials developing a lighter-than-air unmanned vehicle that could be used as a communications relay, peacekeeper or weather observer have completed a design feasibility study and are ready to begin construction of a demonstration vehicle, contractor Lockheed Martin announced today.
House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich (R-OH) issued a report today that portrays the Defense Department as wallowing in unchecked financial mismanagement totaling billions of dollars each year.
The Navy's top aviation official said today the F/A-18E/F, the heart of naval aviation for the next decade, has passed its operational evaluation tests and is ready to be delivered to the fleet.
Lockheed Martin is still the largest single beneficiary of Defense Department spending, DOD announced today.
The Pentagon's top weapons testing official has told Congress the Defense Department is shortchanging its spending on test and evaluation programs and faces the prospect that it will not be able to develop all of the technologies needed to fight in the 21st century.