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Air Force officer defends decision to overturn sexual-assault verdict
The Air Force commander who overturned a jury's guilty verdict in a sexual assault case -- enraging members of Congress and prompting talk of military justice reform -- explained his case in a letter to a top Pentagon official, saying he found the accused officer and his wife more believable than the alleged victim.
Tags: Air Force , Michael Donley , Craig Franklin , James Wilkerson
Pentagon budget pares program
The Pentagon has submitted $526.6 billion that calls for closing bases, slashing the civilian workforce and scrapping weapons programs. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel says it reflects the need to pay for the war in Afghanistan, implementing the President's defense strategic guidance. "This budget also increases DoD's investments in its cyber workforce, continues to implement our rebalance to Asia and makes new investments the flexible platforms needed for the future," says Hagel. He also says that future will take place in a world of complete uncertainty.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , J.J. Green
DoD makes slow progress towards clean 2017 audit
Mark Easton, DoD's deputy chief financial officer, says the challenges toward a clean audit are significant but the Pentagon is still optimistic.
Tags: Mark Easton , CFO , audit , clean audit , Rise of the Money People , On DoD
Experts discuss DoD's challenges in reaching a clean audit
Former DoD Deputy CFO Al Tucker and Asif Khan from the Government Accountability Office join Francis Rose on this week's edition of Pentagon Solutions to discuss the challenges DoD has in reaching a clean audit by 2017.
Tags: Asif Khan , Al Tucker , financial management , audits , Pentagon Solutions , Francis Rose , Rise of the Money People
Federal budget cuts ground Air Force aircraft
Tags: budget , budget 2014 , Air Force , Congress , Barack Obama ,
Hagel seeks change on conviction reversals
Tags: Chuck Hagel , sexual assault , Claire McCaskill
Two sentenced in Seattle plot
A second man who pleaded guilty has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for planning to attack a military recruitment facility in Seattle and murder U.S. servicemen in 2011.
Walli Mujahidh, 34, was one of two men who had planned to storm the Military Entrance Processing Station south of downtown Seattle with machine guns and grenades in retaliation for U.S. military actions in Afghanistan.
Joseph Anthony Davis, was sentenced to 18 years in prison last month.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , J.J. Green
Navy mandates partial migration to commercial cloud
A new memo from Navy Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen tells the Navy and Marine Corps to move public-facing data to commercial cloud service providers.
Tags: technology , Navy , Marine Corps , cloud computing , Terry Halvorsen , Jared Serbu
Analysis: Pay, benefits, O&M will swallow entire DoD budget by 2024
Absent structural changes, the combination of 10-year budget caps Congress has already approved and rising growth in personnel costs mean DoD would be able to sign paychecks, administer healthcare benefits and not much more.
Tags: Congress , workforce , budget , 2014 budget , sequestration , Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments , Todd Harrison , Jared Serbu
Cost-conscious DoD reduces pricetag of big-ticket acquisition programs
The size and cost of the Defense Department's portfolio of major weapons acquisition programs have fallen to their lowest levels in five years, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. DoD's major weapons portfolio decreased by 10 programs in 2012 -- to 86 programs -- while the total cost of DoD's big-ticket procurements fell by $152 billion to $1.6 trillion.
Tags: acquisition , contracting , In Depth , Francis Rose , Mike Sullivan , Jack Moore , GAO
