Defense Secretary William Cohen today ordered the formation of a working group of senior service leaders to draft an action plan to reduce the harassment of homosexual service members.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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Defense Secretary William Cohen today ordered the formation of a working group of senior service leaders to draft an action plan to reduce the harassment of homosexual service members.
A Defense Science Board task force formed last January to look at the Defense Department's information assurance capabilities has been upgraded to a full DSB summer study, according to an industry source.
President Bill Clinton's pick for the Pentagon's top legal position told a Senate committee Tuesday he does not expect Defense Secretary William Cohen will reexamine the department's policy covering gays in the military following the imminent release of a pair of DOD reports on gay harassment in the military.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-VA) said yesterday he would consider introducing a legislative package that would provide legal defense for former U.S. military personnel accused of war crimes in an international court.
A small Florida company has beaten out two defense giants by winning a contract for the upgrade of Marine Corps Light Armored Vehicles.
President Bill Clinton's nominee to be deputy secretary of defense told a Senate committee today that Congress' delay in approving a $2 billion supplemental package for Kosovo operations is setting off warning signs that the services may run out of operations and maintenance funds before the end of the fiscal year.
The government of New Zealand decided yesterday to cancel an agreement to lease 28 F-16s from the United States, once again clouding the future of the fighters, which have been in long-term storage for several years.
While Navy surface warfare officials work to finish a radar road map requested by Congress last year, the service is looking at the production capabilities of Lockheed Martin, one of the two contractors competing for Navy radar work, service and industry officials told InsideDefense.com late last week.
The Sense and Destroy Armor munition, being developed for the Army as an anti-tank and anti-armor weapon, achieved a 79 percent reliability rate during technical tests held March 7-11 at the Army's Yuma Proving Grounds, AZ, prime contractor Aerojet said today.
The Defense Department yesterday formally announced 11 new advanced concept technology demonstrations for fiscal year 2000.
The Boeing Company announced today that it has reached an agreement with the union that represents the defense contractor's engineers that may put an end to a 38-day strike.
If the Navy were given an extra $2.2 billion it could field a theater missile defense system capable of defeating unsophisticated missiles by fiscal year 2005, two years sooner than now planned, and could have a fully robust system at sea by FY-08, also two years early, according to a new "white paper" put together by the service's Theater Wide missile defense program office.
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Jones, who is growing increasingly worried about the service's ability to recruit and retain Marines, has ordered a two-day retention "stand-down" to focus on convincing as many Marines as possible to sign up for another tour of duty.
Boeing officials do not expect a first flight of the company's Joint Strike Fighter demonstrator by spring as originally planned due to the impact of a labor strike by the company's engineers, a Boeing spokesman said yesterday.
In a deal worth more than $400 million, the United Arab Emirates has selected a new derivative of General Electric's F110 fighter engine to propel its new fleet of F-16 Block 60 aircraft, GE announced yesterday.
The labor strike against the Boeing Corporation, one of two competitors for the tri-service Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, may have already eaten into any cushion the program's schedule has and the Pentagon may be looking at a "day-for-day" delay the longer the strike continues, the Marine Corps' top acquisition officer told a House subcommittee yesterday.
The Navy's surface ship radar road map, over a year in the making, is once again under review by senior Navy surface warfare officials after it was approved by the vice chief of naval operations earlier this month, according to service and industry officials.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jay Johnson and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Jones late last week kicked off a year-long review of the service's joint amphibious warfighting doctrine.
A Pennsylvania company that pled guilty to arms sales violations involving China last year has been disbarred from doing business overseas, the State Department officially announced today.
The Army's Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command last week decided the Objective Individual Combat Weapon program is ready for its next phase of development, a service spokesman told InsideDefense.com yesterday.