Wednesday, May 15, 2024
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Army officials are studying the technologies from several artillery pieces, such as the lightweight 155 mm howitzer and the Crusader advanced field artillery system, to see if they can be combined into one weapon that can work with the Army's new, lighter infantry forces, Lt. Gen. Paul Kern told InsideDefense.com today.
The Pentagon yesterday announced plans for a potential $402 million in foreign military sales.
Adm. Dennis Blair, commander-in-chief of U.S. Pacific Command, yesterday made another pitch for more intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets, telling reporters at a Pentagon briefing that current ISR shortages prevent his command from monitoring activity in the Pacific Rim as closely as desired.
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Ryan said today the service hopes to reprogram money within its fiscal year 2000 budget to modify B-2 and B-1 bombers to carry up to 82 500-pound bombs.
A squadron of Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornets will begin enforcing the no-fly zone in southern Iraq this week as the service takes part for the first time in Operation Southern Watch, according to a Marine Corps spokeswoman.
After months of sometimes highly contentious maneuverings between the Navy and industry, the service has begun internal briefings on a completed surface ship radar road map, according to a Navy memo obtained today by InsideDefense.com.
The commander-in-chief of all U.S. forces in the Pacific today said the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act, recently passed by the House and awaiting review by the Senate, will not improve his warfighting ability and will move China and Taiwan further away from a peaceful resolution to their problems.
Assistant Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Terrence Dake is leading an internal assessment of the service's force-level needs for the 21st century, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Jones told InsideDefense.com last week.
The Air Force today announced its plans for preparing the environmental impact statement dealing with basing locations for the first wing of F-22 Raptors.
Lockheed Martin today announced the leadership team for its recently consolidated aeronautical systems unit.
The National Defense University has established a new Chinese military affairs study center at Ft. McNair in Washington, DC, the Pentagon announced yesterday.
Senior Marine Corps and Army leaders will discuss ways the nation's two land warfare services can work more closely together at a closed-door meeting in May, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Jones told InsideDefense.com this week.
Deidre Lee, the current administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), has been selected as the new director of defense procurement, the Pentagon announced today.
Armed with a larger-than-expected federal budget surplus, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-AK) yesterday said he will try to pump more money into the Defense Department's budget this year and pay for some of the programs on the military services' unfunded priorities lists.
The Energy Department's congressionally mandated National Nuclear Security Administration formally entered into operation today, on the eve of a House Armed Services Committee hearing tomorrow where lawmakers are expected to grill Energy Secretary Bill Richardson on his department's organizational plan for the new agency.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-VA) will offer an amendment to the $2 billion Kosovo supplemental appropriation asking for a tally of what European governments have pledged toward the Kosovo peacekeeping mission and what they have delivered.
An intergovernmental information systems security forum has issued new guidance for acquiring commercially available security products for national security information systems across the U.S. government, the Pentagon announced today.
The Pentagon official charged with building a defensive system to protect the United States from ballistic missile attack told a Senate subcommittee yesterday that a sea-based system "would make sense at some point in time," but there is no rush to include it now in the Defense Department's National Missile Defense architecture.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Hugh Shelton has told the commander of U.S. peacekeeping forces in Kosovo that only under "extraordinary" circumstances should American troops be sent out of the sector they are patrolling to back up other international peacekeeping forces, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
Defense Secretary William Cohen has sent Adm. Vernon Clark's name to the White House as his choice to be the Navy's next chief of naval operations, Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon said today.