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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.
The Pentagon would need to furlough “virtually all” of its nearly 800,000 civilian employees for one month between March and September if mandatory federal spending cuts go into effect in March, according to a prominent defense budget analyst.
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.
Army officials hoped to have a decision in hand on its stalled Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) helicopter program in mid-December, when officers briefed vice chief of staff of the Army Gen. Lloyd Austin III on the results of last summer’s visits with potential competitors in the quest to upgrade or replace the service’s aging Kiowa Warrior fleet.
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.
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.
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. 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.
The United States launched 59 attacks from remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) in Afghanistan in December, according to new Air Force statistics.
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.
IZMIR, Turkey — The U.S. deployment of Patriot missiles in Turkey began Jan. 5 to help the country defend itself against any threat from neighboring Syria which is in the throes of a deadly 21-month civil war.
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.
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.
A retired Marine general has left his executive post at a major gun maker to join a defense firm best known for developing nonlethal ammunition.
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.
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.
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