The House beat back an unusual coalition of liberal and conservative lawmakers and approved a contentious $642 billion Pentagon policy bill.
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House Votes to Preserve a Power of Indefinite Detention
The Republican-led House has agreed to replace deep budget cuts scheduled to hit the Pentagon in January with a series of reductions in funding for food stamps, Medicaid and regulation of the financial sector. Read full article > >
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House passes bill to shield Pentagon from automatic spending cuts
The House is expected to vote Thursday on a Republican plan that would spare the Pentagon from the deep across-the-board spending cuts envisioned as part of last summer’s debt-ceiling agreement, reviving what has been an emotional debate in Washington about the best ways to reduce the federal budget deficit. Read full article > >
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House to vote on GOP plan that would forestall Pentagon cuts
The Defense Department has inadequately protected from reprisals whistleblowers who have reported wrongdoing, according to an internal Pentagon report, and critics are calling for action to be taken against those who have been negligent. Read full article > >
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Pentagon report says Defense Department whistleblowers have been left vulnerable to reprisals
Senior military leaders are recommending that the Pentagon’s two-year-old cyberwarfare unit be elevated to full combatant command status, sending a signal to adversaries that the U.S. military is serious about protecting its ability to operate in cyberspace, officials said. Read full article > >
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Military leaders seek higher profile for Pentagon’s Cyber Command unit
The Pentagon is planning to ramp up its spying operations against high-priority targets such as Iran under an intelligence reorganization aimed at expanding on the military’s espionage efforts beyond war zones, a senior defense official said Monday. Read full article > >
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Pentagon establishes Defense Clandestine Service, new espionage unit
More service members than initially believed were involved in misconduct in Colombia ahead of last weekend's Summit of the Americas, the Pentagon said Monday.
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Secret Service clearances yanked
Pentagon: 11 Secret Service agents pulled from Colombia.
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Pentagon: More Agents Involved in Scandal
If cost overruns were eliminated along with the modernization of already flawed — and expensive — weapons, perhaps the Pentagon would not be facing the potential sequester of funds. Of course, that’s very easy to say but very hard to do. Two recent reports make that clear. Read full article > >
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Cutting costs could do a lot for Defense
A telltale sign that Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara no longer believed in the Vietnam War came not from anything he said publicly, but how he said it. Harold Brown, who served under McNamara at the Pentagon as director of defense research and engineering and later as secretary of the Air Force, came to recognize the mannerisms McNamara would display when voicing public support for policies with which he privately disagreed. Read full article > >
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Defense book takes a deeper look at Robert McNamara
The Pentagon announces a $2m competition to develop robots able to drive vehicles and use tools in disaster-hit areas.
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Disaster zone robots to compete
A senior Pentagon official on Wednesday authorized a new trial for Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four others accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a step that restarts the most momentous terrorism case likely to be held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read full article > >
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Khalid Sheik Mohammed to face death penalty trial
The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when those networks are not connected to the Internet, according to current and former U.S. officials. Read full article > >
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U.S. accelerating cyberweapon research
The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when those networks are not connected to the Internet, according to current and former U.S. officials. Read full article > >
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U.S. accelerating cyberweapon research
The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when those networks are not connected to the Internet, according to current and former U.S. officials. Read full article > >
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U.S. accelerating cyberweapon research
House passes bill to shield Pentagon from automatic spending cuts
Thursday, May 10th, 2012House to vote on GOP plan that would forestall Pentagon cuts
Thursday, May 10th, 2012Pentagon report says Defense Department whistleblowers have been left vulnerable to reprisals
Sunday, May 6th, 2012Military leaders seek higher profile for Pentagon’s Cyber Command unit
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012Pentagon establishes Defense Clandestine Service, new espionage unit
Monday, April 23rd, 2012
