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06 13th, 2009| 
Reuters – President Barack Obama, seeking to end the schedule delays and cost overruns that plague U.S. defense spending, signed a law on Friday to reform the way the Pentagon purchases major weapons systems. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The cost of fighting the war in Afghanistan will overtake that of the Iraq conflict for the first time in 2010, Pentagon budget documents showed Thursday. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – President Barack Obama’s Defense Department plans to create 20,000 new government jobs to help revamp the way it buys more than $100 billion of weapons each year, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official told Congress. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The Pentagon will soon release “hundreds” of photographs showing alleged abuse by US personnel of “war on terror” detainees during the Bush administration, a US official said Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – A little known Pentagon agency that trained US troops to resist torture promoted the use of some of the same interrogation techniques on Al-Qaeda, which were aired and quickly authorized at high levels of the US government, a Senate investigation has found. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – The Pentagon will soon release “hundreds” of photographs showing alleged abuse by US personnel at prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan during the Bush administration, a US official said Friday. Read the rest of this entry »
