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Senate committee wants to know DoD's 2014 sequestration plan
The top lawmakers on the Senate Armed Services Committee have called on the Defense Department to detail how it will cut billions more from its budget if sequestration continues into next year. In a letter dated May 2, Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the committee, asked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to provide a "package of reductions" to the department's proposed 2014 budget.
Tags: sequestration , Congress , Senate , DoD budget , James Inhofe , Carl Levin , Jack Moore
China accused of espionage --again
A new Pentagon reports says China state-sponsored industrial espionage to acquire the technology it needs for the foundation of its fast-paced military modernization program. The report says, "China continues to leverage foreign investments, commercial joint ventures, academic exchanges, the experience of repatriated Chinese students and researchers, to build that program. The Intelligence community recently accused China of industrial espionage.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , J.J. Green
Airman who led sex assault unit charged in groping
Tags: Air Force , sexual assault
Experimental Air Force aircraft goes hypersonic
Tags: X-51A , Air Force , Waverider , Boeing Phantom Works
North Korea working to attack the U.S.
North Korea appears headed toward the capability to strike the U.S. with a nuclear-armed missile. The Associated Press reports, "In a report to Congress Thursday, the Pentagon made no estimate of when North Korea might achieve that capability. It said the North will move closer to its goal if it continues investing in the testing of nuclear and missile technologies. The report says the North's work on a space-launch vehicle has contributed heavily to its effort to build a missile capable of delivering a warhead to U.S. targets. That work was highlighted by the launch of a satellite into space last December."
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , J.J. Green
DoD's BRAC wish hitting brick wall on Capitol Hill
The Pentagon insists it is paying to maintain much more military base infrastructure than it needs, and the problem will only get worse as the Defense Department shrinks due to budget reductions. Congress, however, remains unsympathetic.
Tags: Congress , BRAC , Kelly Ayotte , Jeanne Shaheen , Katherine Hammack , Kathleen Ferguson , John Conger , Jared Serbu , management , Senate Armed Service Committee
White House recalculates sequestration cuts for some agencies
The White House budget office is recalculating how to apply automatic spending cuts for a handful of agencies, freeing up almost $4 billion for the Pentagon and another $1 billion or so for other agencies like the Homeland Security Department and NASA.
Tags: sequestration , furloughs , State , Justice , OMB , management
DoD grants network access to Android, BlackBerry 10 devices
The Pentagon's mobile plan includes device approvals that will involve some up-front costs. The expectation is those costs will be quickly offset by eliminating the inefficiency of the slow, stovepiped and outdated approaches that have characterized DoD mobility up until now.
Tags: mobile computing , technology , Android , BlackBerry , Damien Pickart , Robert Wheeler , cybersecurity , Jared Serbu
New security standard to boost agency trust, use of mobile devices
On the one-year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy, the CIO Council and DHS are expected to issue a security baseline and reference architecture for mobile computing. The goal of the document is not to give agencies new requirements but to focus on those security standards that are mobile-centric.
Tags: technology , TechAmerica , CIO survey , Simon Szykman , Commerce , Kevin Cox , CIO Council , Brian Teeple , mobile computing , cybersecurity , George DelPrete , Grant Thornton , Daren Ash , NRC , Jason Miller
