Air Force
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It took more than four years, but Congress succeeded in revamping the organizational structure of the Pentagon over the strident objections of the military\'s own leadership 25 years ago.
December 07, 2011 -
Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information, says that the latest holdups with the F-35 joint strike fighter program are nothing new. He suggests that it might be time for the DoD to pull the plug on the ill-fated program and seek other solutions.
December 06, 2011 -
A new report from GAO shows vendors filed the largest number of bid protests in 2011 since 1995. At the same time, a recent report shows increased use of suspension and debarment. These two reports show a growing tension between agencies and vendors.
December 05, 2011 -
Col. Carey Tucker, the chief of the Munitions Division at the Air Force Global Strike Command, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss how the realignment is going.
December 01, 2011 -
The Air Force has reinstated Advanced C4 Solutions, Superior Communications Solutions and Iron Bow Technologies after the government reviewed all the facts. The contractors, who were suspended on Oct. 24th, were working on a project at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland.
December 01, 2011 -
Retired general spent 34 years in the Army. He will be in charge of a review to evaluate the changes made to the mortuary procedures.
November 23, 2011 -
Schriever Air Force Base spokeswoman Jennifer Thibault says the building was evacuated after the standoff began Monday. She says no shots were fired and no one was injured.
November 21, 2011 -
The hospital is a merger of the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center. The Army moved patients from the Washington facility to the Bethesda campus and a new hospital at Fort Belvoir in Northern Virginia.
November 11, 2011 -
For the first time in the memory of any currently-serving member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified at a single hearing Thursday. Their message: Don\'t add a seventh.
November 11, 2011 -
The new leader of the Air Force\'s major information technology acquisition command said the service still is operating in a mode that lets individual programs design and build their own IT infrastructure.
November 10, 2011 -
The Defense Department needs fast, reliable, resilient satellite networking capabilities across the globe. It\'s wrestling with how to provide those capabilities in the face of dropping budgets.
November 09, 2011 -
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said he will recommend to Congress that the chief of the National Guard bureau not become a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He announced the decision ahead of expected Congressional testimony later this week so service members would hear it from him first, before hearing it on the news.
November 08, 2011 -
Air Force subtracts 9,000 managerial jobs, while adding 5,900 positions in areas it considers key to its mission.
November 03, 2011 -
More than 400 people must leave the Air Force by early 2012, as part of an initiative to trim the military branch\'s officer cadre. Air Force leaders are also targeting enlisted service members.
November 01, 2011 -
The Air Force, Navy and Lockheed Martin are pushing for training to begin on the new F-35 Joint Fight Strike Fighter, despite recommendations to postpone training by 10 months.
November 01, 2011
