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DoD reassures Congress it is fixing contingency contracting
Senior defense leaders told Congress they've already made huge steps toward implementing the recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Contracting. Former members of the panel say DoD still has a lot of work to do.
Tags: DoD , Congress , Senate , Commission on Wartime Contracting , Dov Zakheim , Katherine Schinasi , Claire McCaskill , Frank Kendall , Brooks Bash , acqusition , management , Jared Serbu , Iraq ,
The first casualties of WikiLeaks
The U.S. military in Afghanistan has been compromised by the leak of thousands of documents. Those who have been put in the most danger are Afghan civilians who are helping to U.S. campaign.
Tags: WikiLeaks , Michael Hayden , al-Qaida , David Rittgers , Cato Institute , CIA , Taliban , J.J. Green
Terrorists zero in on small scale East Coast attacks
Locations in Washington, New York and Boston may have been under surveillance by terror organizations for months -- and terrorists may try to launch numerous small scale attacks in the coming months, U.S. intelligence sources say.
Tags: national security , homeland security , Michael T. McCaul , Najibullah Zazi , Times Square bombing , Faisal Shahzad , Pakistan , Al Qaeda , NATO , Terek-e-Taliban , Fox News , John Brennan , Barack Obama , Michael Hayden , CIA , terror attacks , terrorism
President Obama and the 2010 State of the Union
If federal workers listen closely to the State of the Union address, they can get a good sense of what agency priorities are going to be for the upcoming year.
Tags: Lurita Doan , Barack Obama , 111th Congress , State of the Union , ARRA , healthcare reform , fiscal commission , Waxman-Markey , Iraq , Haiti , budget
More robots, faster!
Tags: management , Armed Forces , Rick Lynch , Army , Iraq ,
Passing the Torch.
Now that President Obama has named New York Congressman John McHugh to be the next Secretary of the Army, the man who now has the job -- Pete Geren - can look back on his career as he ponders his future. Geren became acting secretary in March 2007 amidst the crisis in medical care for soldiers. He's overseen deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. He became secretary in his own right when the President asked him to stay on earlier this year.
Tags: management , Armed Forces , Obama , John McHugh , Pete Geren ,
White House Numerology
Lurita Doan's "12 Days of Consider This"
Tags: Barack Obama , White House , stimulus , Nancy Pelosi , Harry Reid , federal debt , unemployment , terrorists , Al Qaeda , appropriations , MIT , DARPA , GDP
New report: alternative energy methods key to securing troops on battlefield
Gen. Charles Wald of Deloitte discusses a recent report he co-wrote.
Tags: technology , Iraq , Energy , Defense , DoD , Deloitte , Gen. Charles Wald , Dorothy Ramienski
More Troops
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the size of the Army will be increased temporarily by 22,000 soldiers. It's an effort to help meet the needs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other missions around the world. Gates previously increased the size of the Army and the Marine Corps after becoming Secretary of Defense. He says more troops are needed in Afghanistan because of the worsening violence there
Tags: technology , Pentagon , Defense Secretary Robert Gates , Army , Marine Corps
Analyst: Lessons of Iraq can be applied in Afghanistan
Former NSC staffer under both George W. Bush and Barack Obama says the surge can work in Afghanistan as it did in Iraq.
Tags: management , contracting , Defense , Brett McGurk , NSC , national security , Harvard , CFR , Iraq ,
