The White House is preparing to send its proposed fiscal year 2014 budget to Congress on March 25 with initial top line figures coming in the middle of the month, Defense News
MoreMarine Corps Gen. Joseph Dunford officially took command of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan at a Sunday ceremony in Kabul, American Forces Press Service reports. Dunford succeeds Marine Corps Gen. John
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The U.S. Air Force could opt to furlough nearly all of its 18,000 civilian workers if the automatic budget cuts under sequestration kick in on March 1, Federal Times reports. Citing a
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke to the press at the Pentagon about what the 2014 budget proposal would look
MoreAutomatic defense cuts under sequestration would result in an $18 billion cut to the U.S. Army‘s budget for the current fiscal year, Defense News reports. The newspaper obtained an internal Army memo
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The Defense Department is facing a Friday deadline to submit to the White House its plans for how to handle automatic spending cuts under sequestration, Defense News reports. This deadline comes in
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The Defense Department is absorbing a $52 billion cut due to effects from both sequestration and a short-term continuing resolution, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday. Army Gen.
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Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter it is looking more likely that $45 billion in automatic defense cuts under sequestration will kick in March 1, he told Bloomberg News. The Defense Department‘s first
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The Defense Department has appointed David Helvey to serve as deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for policy. Helvey previously served
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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Chuck Hagel is “absolutely” ready to replace him, according to a American Forces Press Service article. During the January 31 confirmation
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