Reuters – The nominee to become the top U.S. military officer warned on Tuesday it would be “extraordinarily difficult and very high risk” to cut $800 billion from defense spending as part of efforts to reduce the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – The nominee to become the top U.S. military officer warned on Tuesday it would be “extraordinarily difficult and very high risk” to cut $800 billion from defense spending as part of efforts to reduce the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – General Martin Dempsey, the nominee to be the next chief uniformed officer of the US military, said Tuesday that major cuts in defense spending would pose a “very high risk” to the United States. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – The U.S. military has essentially the same size, force structure and capabilities as it did a decade ago but costs 35 percent more, an independent public policy think tank said on Monday in an analysis of the 2012 defense budget. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A foreign intelligence service swiped 24,000 computer files from a US defense contractor in March in one of the largest ever cyberattacks on a Pentagon supplier, a top Defense Department official revealed. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A foreign intelligence service stole 24,000 computer files in March from a defense contractor developing systems for the US military, a top Pentagon official said Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A US defense contractor pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one charge of conspiring to illegally export US Defense Department weapons plans to China, in an apparent money-saving scheme, the Justice Department said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A US defense contractor pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one charge of conspiring to illegally export US Defense Department weapons plans to China, in an apparent money-saving scheme, the Justice Department said. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Hacker group Anonymous released a trove of military email addresses and passwords it claimed to have plundered from the network of US defense consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – Leon Panetta was sworn in as U.S. defense secretary on Friday promising to keep the military strong while making tough choices on defense spending cuts. Read the rest of this entry »
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