Defense

  • National Counterterrorism Center director Michael Leiter will resign in the coming month. Leiter has been at NCTC since 2007, coming from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

    June 09, 2011
  • The Marines putting in a massive order for new computers. Learn more in today\'s DoD Report

    June 09, 2011
  • Terry Halvorsen, the Department of the Navy\'s chief information officer, said the Navy and Marine Corps should expect ruthless cost cutting in information technology. Halvorsen said if the services don\'t cut costs themselves, it will be done for them.

    June 09, 2011
  • An in-depth analysis report by a Senate committee exposes inadequacies in spending on counternarcotics contracts in Latin America, which may affect future expansion to Afghanistan.

    June 08, 2011
  • Civilians who work for the Defense Department are on the ground in Afghanistan, collaborating with counterparts there to build effective defense institutions.

    June 08, 2011
  • Management leaders in the Defense Department said a dogged and determined end-to-end examination of the government\'s complex security clearance processes got that topic off of GAO\'s high risk list this year. That approach is coming to the rest of DoD\'s back office operations.

    June 08, 2011
  • JD Sicilia, Director of Strategic Management and Performance at DoD and Rosye Cloud, director of Performance Improvement Council join Francis Rose for the Executive Hour on In Depth

    June 07, 2011
  • Lou Crenshaw is a Principal at Grant Thornton. He joins In Depth with cost management lessons from the Pentagon

    June 07, 2011
  • A non-event is how Army Vice Chief of Staff Peter Charelli describes the training that U.S. troops are getting on a new law allowing gay people to serve openly in the military. Most of the problems and trouble that had been predicted appears not to have materialized. The Pentagon has avoiding giving up details on the training because of concern that too much attention could enflame the issue. All of the training should be complete by mid august. Two point two million people need to be trained on the new regulation.

    June 07, 2011
  • Learn more in today\'s DoD Report

    June 07, 2011
  • Sen. Chuck Grassley, issuing his second report on the status of the Defense Department\'s inspector general, said there are \"positive trends\" in the office he has previously criticized but he and his staff still give the IGs work a \"D minus.\"

    June 07, 2011
  • Proposed rule would require companies who bid on Defense contracts to certify that any former DoD officials who work for them are in compliance with post-employment ethics rules.

    June 06, 2011
  • Analysis on Defense Secretary Robert Gates\'s cost-cutting legacy from Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.

    June 06, 2011
  • FAI, DAU teaming together to provide contracting officers and others training and tools.

    June 06, 2011