National & World Headlines
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Jim McAleese, defense analyst and principal of McAleese and Associates, anticipates some last minute maneuvering from Congress to secure funding for 2012.
December 15, 2011 -
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee introduced a bill that cuts 10 percent of the federal workforce to avoid the first year of automatic cuts to the Defense Department.
December 15, 2011 -
Holly Petraeus, director of the consumer Financial Protection Bureau\'s Office of Servicemember Affairs, says bad credit rating, the rough housing market and poor financial management are just a few of the issues that military personnel face.
December 15, 2011 -
Glenn San Giacomo, a senior vice president and business unit general manager at SAIC, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the ins and outs of successful supply chain management. SAIC was recently awarded a supply chain contract by the DLA to provide land and aircraft tires.
December 14, 2011 -
The service has been trying to bring workforce numbers down to 2010 levels. Since the spring, the Air Force cut nearly 9,000 positions with 4,500 more to go to reach their goal.
December 14, 2011 -
Col. John Morrison is director of the Army\'s LandWarNet Battle Command, the office that\'s in charge of integrating Army capabilities at the NIE.
December 14, 2011 -
The Navy is taking a different look at curing post-traumatic stress disorder. A doctor says he has developed an injection for the neck that can cure PTSD, Wired reports. Capt. Anita Hickey, the director of Integrative Pain Medicine at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego has received $100,000 to test Dr. Lipov\'s method.
December 13, 2011 -
The DoD Cyber Command poked and prodded the Army Corps\' Los Angeles district\'s network during a recent Command Cyber Readiness Inspection. Army Corps of Engineers CIO Bob Kazimer said the analysis will give the rest of the agency lessons learned to improve cybersecurity across the Corps. December 15, 2011
December 13, 2011 -
House and Senate negotiators who hammered out an agreement for the 2012 defense authorization bill added language that puts the brakes on the Army\'s transition to an enterprise email effort. The language adds several requirements the Army and DoD must meet before moving forward with the project.
December 13, 2011 -
Col. Danial \"Dino\" Pick, commandant of the Defense Language Institute, describes how the Broadband Language Training System is helping service members.
December 13, 2011 -
Lawmakers have agreed on a $662 billion defense spending bill that includes a 1.6 percent pay raise, increases to TRICARE premiums and a cap on contractor executive pay, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees announced late Monday.
December 13, 2011 -
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The Government Accountability Office thinks Congress can play a greater role in improving federal agencies\' coordination and performance. In a recent report, GAO recommended Congress use new powers under the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 in its oversight, authorization and appropriations roles. The law emphasizes program achievements over processes.
December 12, 2011 -
Gordon Adams, a professor of international relations at American University and former associate director at OMB, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what the defense budget restructuring.
December 12, 2011 -
Bill Woods, the director of acquisition and sourcing management issues at GAO, directed a team that reviewed seven defense companies and their internal audit processes. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the findings of the report.
December 12, 2011