Congressional Report: Pentagon Healthcare Fund Will be Exhausted by August
A House of Representatives Appropriations Committee report says the $2.6 billion healthcare funding reduction from sequestration might cause the defense-wide healthcare budget to run ...
Lawmakers Urge Pentagon to Continue Army Tactical Comms Funding
A bipartisan group of 71 U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers have urged the Pentagon not to shift funds from tactical networking programs to pay for war operations abroad, according ...
Elizabeth McGrath: Pentagon to Focus on Operation Costs
Elizabeth McGrath
Elizabeth McGrath, Defense Department deputy chief management officer, told the Excellence in Government Forum Tuesday the Pentagon will increasingly focus on operations ...
Larry Allen: Defense Spending Down More Than Mandated by Sequestration
Pentagon contracts awarded in April were worth 52 percent less than those awarded in March as the sequester’s across-the-board federal spending cuts began to bite, The Washington ...
Jim McAleese: The 2013 Sequester’s Likely and Potential Impact on the Services
Jim McAleese, founder and principal at McAleese & Associates, recently caught up with Executive Mosaic, parent company of the Potomac Officers Club (P.O.C) and publisher of ExecutiveGov, ...
Ashton Carter Repeats Pentagon Request for New BRAC Round
Ashton Carter
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter reiterated Tuesday the Pentagon’s request for another Base Realignment and Closure Commission round in an effort to help reduce ...
Report: Pentagon Cuts Clearance Reinvestigation Time, Cites Sequestration
The Defense Security Service has reduced the amount of time it takes to request updated background checks on people holding security clearances from 90 days, Federal Times reports.
Jim ...
China Using Espionage to Bolster Military Modernization Program; David Helvey Comments
According to a Pentagon report, China’s military modernization program is backed by intelligence acquired through industrial and economic espionage, Reuters reports.
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White House Saves $5B From Automatic DoD Spending Cuts
The White House has announced that it will restore $4.9 billion out of the $85 billion to be cut from the Defense Department budget due to sequestration, according to a Bloomberg article.
Brian ...
Pentagon Revamps ‘Bunker Buster’ to Deter Iran Nuclear Threat
The U.S. Defense Department has overhauled the “bunker buster” bomb meant to attack Iran’s nuclear facility in case peace negotiations fail, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
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