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As the U.S. Air Force begins to prepare for potential budget cuts in March, Air Force Secretary Michael Donley said he remains “deeply concerned” about the impact of sequestration on the service.
WASHINGTON —President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, discussed Jan. 11 what they said was a “possible” U.S. military presence in Afghanistan after 2014.
The U.S. Defense Department is preparing to ground military aircraft and call ships back to port should the Pentagon get hit with nearly $50 billion in budget cuts in March.
ROME — The CEO of a unit under Italian defense group Finmeccanica has been arrested on suspicion of seeking to rig Naples police department public contracts, following a five-year investigation.
The Senate subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending still has no chairman, with Sen. Patrick Leahy turning down the Appropriations Defense subcommittee gavel.
ISLAMABAD — Recent clashes by Indian and Pakistani forces are not likely to escalate further, analysts say, as both nations have a stake in calming matters along the Line of Control (LoC) bifurcating Kashmir between the two rival states.
LONDON — Britain’s Ministry of Defence got a better grip on equipment program costs in 2011-12 but its control over delivery times was as bad as ever, according to a report on major projects by the governments spending watchdog.
Determined not to be labeled as the villain in a report on how the British Ministry of Defence managed its major equipment programs, in-flight refueling contractor AirTanker has released an open letter to the government’s spending watchdog distancing itself from accusations that its Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft program is responsible for a hike in overall procurement spending.
As Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai huddles with U.S. officials, one former senior American diplomat predicts President Barack Obama will opt for a “low-cost, high-risk” post-2014 Afghanistan strategy.
NEW DELHI — Contrary to media reports here that defense spending is likely to be reduced, sources in the Indian Finance Ministry sources said there is no such proposal before them to reduce defense allocations. to defense.
TOKYO — Japan plans to spend $2.1 billion on its military over the next few months as part of a huge stimulus package, a defense ministry official said Jan. 9, amid growing concerns over a rising China.
LONDON — The British government is not doing enough to address the military opportunities and vulnerabilities of cybersecurity, the Parliament’s defense committee has warned.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was vague Jan. 8 about just when President Barack Obama will launch talks with lawmakers about avoiding deep cuts to planned Pentagon spending.
Former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel’s nomination to replace Leon Panetta as U.S. defense secretary will bring something old and something new into the national spotlight: President George W. Bush’s Iraq war and a shrinking Pentagon budget.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will travel to Europe next week where he will discuss the war in Afghanistan and cooperative efforts with defense leaders in four countries.
HERZLIYA, Israel — Israel’s Defense Ministry is launching several initiatives to safeguard its industrial base, cultivate emerging markets and ultimately boost annual exports to $10 billion from the $7 billion levels of recent years.
PARIS — An impending wave of cuts in public spending in France calls for a debate on the elements that make up the country’s nuclear deterrent, with a big question mark over whether to maintain the carrier-borne air wing, a report from influential think tank Centre d’Etude et de Prospective Stratégique (CEPS) said.
U.S. President Barack Obama nominated former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to serve as defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to head the CIA, two key administration national security posts.
VICTORIA, British Columbia — Canada will rely on either private companies or its allies for midair refueling if it decides to purchase F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to replace its CF-18 fighter aircraft.
Having failed to produce timely defense spending bills or avoid a chaotic end to a year-long march toward sequestration, the recently-deceased 112th Congress also failed to approve a normally prosaic measure allowing the transfers of old U.S. Navy ships to friendly navies.
Permanently avoiding massive Pentagon budget cuts could prove difficult as Washington enters a fight over the nation’s borrowing limit, a coming political battle that will bring big federal spending cuts to the forefront.
TAIPEI — The U.S. military must consider both conventional and nuclear capabilities to “neutralize” China’s underground nuclear weapons storage facilities, according to a Pentagon authorization signed into law.
The climate on Capitol Hill continued on Jan. 4 to shift toward big federal spending reductions, a potentially unnerving shift for the Pentagon and U.S. defense sector as lawmakers begin the search for an accord on cuts to pare the deficit.
Despite Republican backlash over several tax and spending measures, the U.S. House voted Jan. 3 to keep a defense-sector ally as the lower chamber’s speaker.
The fiscal uncertainty that continues to engulf Washington could delay the submission of the U.S. Defense Department’s 2014 budget proposal, according to a senior Pentagon official.
A vacationing President Obama has signed the controversial measure that delays pending cuts to projected Pentagon spending and the 2013 military policy bill, the White House said.
The day after Congress passed a bill delaying defense spending cuts for two months, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta continued to press lawmakers to pass a balanced deal to lower the nation’s deficit.
NEW DELHI — The Indian Defence Ministry has begun a global search to procure unspecified numbers of heavy trucks on which to mount missiles following a ban on acquiring vehicles from Bharat Earth Movers Ltd. (BEML), which has become involved in a bribery scandal.
The House on Jan. 1 approved a measure that partially averts the fiscal cliff and delays pending cuts to planned Pentagon spending until March.
As U.S. Senate Republican leaders and White House officials scramble to cobble together contents of a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, it remains unclear whether they will find a way to delay or void pending defense cuts.
President Obama says he hasn't decided on a new Defense secretary, but he defended one of the names mentioned: Former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel."I've served with Chuck Hagel," Obama told NBC's Meet The Press in an interview broadcast Dec. 30. "I know him. He is a patriot. He is somebody who has done extraordinary work both in the United States Senate (and) somebody who served this country with valor in Vietnam."
WASHINGTON — President Obama said he remains hopeful Congress will reach a deal to avert the “fiscal cliff,” but he reiterated his call for a vote on his plan to extend middle class tax rates if Congress fails.
MOSCOW— A Russian warship carrying a unit of marines has left its Black Sea port for Syria amid preparations for a possible evacuation of nationals living and working in the strife-torn country, news reports said Dec. 30.
KABUL — More than 1,000 Afghan soldiers died in action this year, the highest since the Taliban insurgency began, as the army assumes more responsibility before NATO forces withdraw in 2014, officials said Dec. 30.
The Aerospace Industries Association is issuing a final plea, aiming to convince lawmakers to address pending Pentagon cuts in their fiscal cliff legislation — but it may be too late.
Following a meeting with President Obama, Senate leaders said Friday they intend to hammer out a plan that would avoid the fiscal cliff and present it to their caucuses on Sunday. But it remains unclear whether the last-minute package will delay or void pending military spending cuts.
House Speaker John Boehner is attempting to shift pressure to the Democratic-controlled Senate as President Obama and congressional leaders are set to return to the negotiating table Dec. 27.
PARIS — France should draw up a long-term defense industrial strategy based on key competencies and operational capabilities, and reduce stakes in companies to hold only a “golden share,” according to a wide-ranging think tank report on defense policy.
In a move that seemed inevitable following the torpedoing of Ambassador Susan Rice’s candidacy, President Barack Obama named Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as his nominee for the position of Secretary of State on Dec. 21.
The 2013 defense policy bill — which clears the Pentagon to spend $633 billion on aircraft, ships and vehicles — is headed to President Obama’s desk. But its provisions on detaining terrorist suspects could lead Obama to veto it.
Chuck Hagel once seemed a widely respected former GOP senator and emerging thought leader on defense and national security issues who would cruise through the confirmation process if tapped for a Cabinet post. That’s no longer the case, and some senators say the Obama White House is dropping the ball.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta issued a department-wide memorandum Dec. 20 that reiterated prior statements on the mechanics of defense cuts while reassuring civilian employees that the department would operate as normal to start the year.
After months of bad press highlighting leaked internal reports and emails pertaining to persistent issues with the Army’s Defense Common Ground System (DCGS) battlefield intelligence processing software, service officials convened a conference call on Dec.
ROME — Giampaolo di Paola was named Italian defense minister in the government of “technocrats” headed by Mario Monti, which took office after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned in November 2011. Monti’s government was due to step down by next April to make way for elections, but Monti has said he will resign at the end of this year following his loss of parliamentary support.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., is expected to take over the gavel of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee after Sen. Patrick Leahy opted against taking the post.
A special congressional panel, worried about the disappearing lines between military and intelligence work, is endorsing Senate-approved language restricting plans to insert the U.S. military into the global espionage business.
U.S. President Barack Obama would veto legislation floated by House Speaker John Boehner that would raise taxes on high-earning Americans and extend middle-class breaks but still allows deep Pentagon cuts to occur.
In an intriguing push against the ever-increasing number of foreign-governments sponsored cyber attacks against U.S. companies, the U.S. Department of Justice intends to turn to its roots with an old-fashioned tactic that has worked against the mafia, drug traffickers and white collar crime: criminal prosecutions.
In a wide-ranging speech delivered at National Press Club in Washington on Dec. 18, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta presented a vision of the future that includes a very active role for the U.S. military in a post-Afghanistan world, even as the Pentagon shrinks its end strength and tightens its fiscal belt.
House and Senate lawmakers have agreed on a final bill authorizing the Pentagon to spend $631 billion in 2013, while also limiting DoD’s ability to deploy military spies and enter the biofuels industry. The bill stops short of mandating a new U.S.-based missile shield, and green-lights new multiyear contracts
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