Defense
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The deadline to apply is Monday for airmen eligible for the Temporary Early Retirement Authority.
April 27, 2012 -
House military personnel subcommittee asserts retirees have already paid for their health care via their military service, omits DoD proposal to hike TRICARE fees.
April 27, 2012 -
Guests on this week's show include defense finance analyst Sopen Shah, congressional analyst Loren Duggan, and technology analysts Afzal Bari and Allan Holmes.
April 26, 2012 -
The Defense Logistics Agency recently sponsored a program to tag microchips with plant DNA. It was so successful that the DLA is adding a second phase.
April 26, 2012 -
The Veterans Affairs department has signed a deal with the National Archives and Records Administration to start digitizing billions of pages of paper documents dealing with Veterans' benefit claims.
April 26, 2012 -
Katherine Hammack, the assistant secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and the Environment, joins Pentagon Solutions to discuss the Energy Initiatives Task Force, which focuses on creating large renewable energy projects on military bases.
April 25, 2012 -
DHS prevents homelessness wherever possible and provides short-term emergency shelter and re-housing support when needed.
April 25, 2012 -
Donald Adcock, who served from 2010 until this month as the executive director of the Army Information Technology Agency, has left the Pentagon to become the associate CIO for IT services at the Department of Energy.
April 25, 2012 -
A rag tag group of men pushing for the re-instatement of Haiti's now defunct military are refusing to disband and clear out of old military bases in spite of repeated orders from the government. In a news conference at an army barracks just outside Haiti's capital, several veterans of the defunct army said Haitian officials broke a promise by failing to appoint them to the helm of an interim force until the military is officially reinstated.
April 25, 2012 -
A pilot program DoD established to share cyber threat information between the NSA and Defense companies will be made permanent and expanded to include approximately 200 companies in the coming months.
April 25, 2012 -
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has brushed aside Iranian government claims that it has recovered data from a U.S. spy drone that it captured last year. Panetta says he would seriously question their ability to do what they say they have done. Iranian officials claimed Sunday that they were building a copy of the drone and that they had recovered information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed.
April 24, 2012 -
The Veterans Affairs Department should be exempt from the automatic across-the-board cuts — or sequestration — laid out in last summer's Budget Control Act, according to an April 23 letter from the Office of Management and Budget.
April 24, 2012 -
Northrop Grumman will develop, build and test two vertical take-off and landing tactical unmanned aerial vehicles. And it will produce six other VT-UAVs.
April 24, 2012 -
he Military Equal Opportunity Network is a standalone, online, web-based program that standardizes, tracks and reports the administrative actions of EO advisors and program managers. Users will be able to track complaints, including sexual harassment and discrimination complaints, from start to "resolved."
April 24, 2012 -
Brian Friel, Bloomberg Government federal business intelligence analyst, authored a report that said a new contracting trend is putting a cash-squeeze on some firms.
April 24, 2012