SDFM The Business of Defense

  • A former State Department employee has been sentenced after a probe revealed he snooped on presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain passports.

    December 25, 2008
  • The U.S. Army hasn\'t even rolled out its new protective system for armored vehicles, but the Russians have already countered it.

    December 24, 2008
  • Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding held an authentication ceremony for the USS Arlington, the Navy\'s eighth amphibious transport dock ship.

    December 23, 2008
  • U.S. Rep.-elect Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) Charity Wilson Enid Doggett

    December 22, 2008
  • U.S. Army combat aviation brigade will be sent to Afghanistan in the spring as part of a buildup of forces to counter rising insurgent violence.

    December 22, 2008
  • Richard Skinner Inspector General December 22nd and 24th, 2008

    December 22, 2008
  • Letters containing a strange substance have been received all over the country.\"

    December 18, 2008
  • What\'s going to happen to the military\'s efforts to replenish it\'s aerial refueling tankers. Northrop Grumman wants the Obama administration to revive the procurement process, which has been stuck for months.

    December 16, 2008
  • Iran is no longer actively supplying Iraqi militias with a particularly lethal kind of roadside bomb, a decision that suggests a strategic shift by the Iranian leadership, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said Thursday.

    December 15, 2008
  • More U.S. troops are going to Afghanistan by next summer, and the Pentagon is going to commit a sustained force there for several more years...

    December 12, 2008
  • The world financial crisis could create more problems from terrorists.

    December 11, 2008
  • Bryan Lowry Lynn Jennings

    December 10, 2008
  • Tom Fingar is leaving the ODNI team. He\'s head of the National Intelligence Council.

    December 10, 2008
  • Next year a significant Marine presence may likely be headed to Afghanistan.

    December 09, 2008
  • The U.S. military conducted a successful test of its system built to knock out long-range missiles that could be fired by North Korea or Iran, the Pentagon said Friday.

    December 08, 2008