Defense Department
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Marine Gen. James Amos now calls the repeal of \"don\'t ask don\'t tell\" a non-event and says it does not undermine the war effort.
November 29, 2011 -
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, calls for \"whole government\" approach to dealing with online threat.
November 29, 2011 -
Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how sequestration will affect defense managers and contractors. He said the threat of automatic, across-the-board cuts from sequestration will hang over DoD for the next year.
November 23, 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 -
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wanted to know how quickly people could put shredded documents together again. The answer: pretty quickly.
November 23, 2011 -
Defense Department Inspector General Gordon Heddell is stepping down Dec. 24.
November 23, 2011 -
A Defense Department program to share military equipment with federal, state and local agencies could ease budget pressure at the Homeland Security Department. Already, Customs and Border Protection has used military drones and radar-equipped airships to track drug smugglers and human traffickers.
November 22, 2011 -
President Obama signs bipartisan bill that will help The President says it will help about 850,000 veterans who are currently unemployed and tens of thousands who are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in the coming months.
November 22, 2011 -
The administration, lawmakers and others are sounding off on the failure of the supercommittee to reach a deal for cutting more than $1 trillion from the deficit. Facing automatic, across-the-board cuts — half from defense and half from civilian agencies, beginning in 2013 — the consensus now seems to be Congress should work to come up with an alternative deficit-reduction plan.
November 22, 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 -
For the first time in 20 years, audits reviewed and gave an opinion for every civilian agency. Only DoD doesn\'t have a qualified or clean audit opinion.
November 21, 2011 -
By Michael O’Connell Web Editor Federal News Radio The American Small Business Coalition is hosting its annual holiday bash on Nov. 30. But this isn’t just any holiday party. This is a chance for the…
November 21, 2011 -
After a decade in which it has been built up to parity with the active Army and Air Force components, the National Guard should not be allowed to backslide to a point where it is no longer usable, the National Guard chief said Friday.
November 21, 2011 -
Agencies have four months to develop diversity and inclusion plans under a broad, brief governmentwide strategy released Thursday. Proponents say, by making the President\'s Management Council responsible for progress, the strategy will succeed where past measures have failed.
November 21, 2011 -
Jack Gansler is director of the Center for Public Policy & Private Enterprise at the University of Maryland\'s School of Public Policy and former Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics.
November 18, 2011