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Top senators question Pentagon move on fighter jet
The leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee suggested on Monday that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta rushed a decision to develop the Marine Corps version of the next-generation strike fighter jet despite new technical problems with the troubled program.
Tags: DoD , Leon Panetta , F-35 , Lockheed Martin , DoD Update , acquisition , contracting , Carl Levin
GOP plan cuts fed pay, workforce to save DoD from sequestration
GOP senators unveiled a bill Thursday that would grant the Defense Department a one-year reprieve from "sequestration" cuts. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the proposal "skullduggery."
Tags: DoD , Congress , pay and benefits , workforce , supercommittee , sequestration , Jon Kyl , Kelly Ayotte , John Cornyn , CBO , NTEU , Martin Dempsey , BRAC , pay freeze , attrition , Jared Serbu , DoD Report
Cyber Monday counterfeiting crackdown highlights agency collaboration
The Justice Department and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement led a government-wide effort to stem the flow of counterfeit products. The White House launched a public-service campaign to let citizens know the impact of fake products on the economy. The Senate passed more stringent rules for DoD and its vendors to make sure military parts are original.
Tags: oversight , DHS , DoD , ICE , John Morton , White House , Victoria Espinel , Counterfeit products , National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center , Carl Levin , Defense Authorization Bill , Jason Miller
Defense hawks insist on sparing military from cuts
Tags: DoD , Mitch McConnell , Leon Panetta , Howard McKeon , Harry Reid , budget , supercommittee , House Armed Services Committee , John Boehner , G. William Hoagland
Congress hops aboard the minibus
Congress crafted a partial measure to fund some agencies through fiscal year 2012 and extend a continuing resolution for others. Erik Wasson of The Hill acknowledges that the current budget process has been the most complicated he's seen.
Tags: Erik Wasson , The Hill , supercommittee , Congress , House , Senate , OMB , Jack Lew , budget 2012 , Michael OConnell , DoD
Pentagon leaders defend withdrawal of US from Iraq
Tags: DoD , Leon Panetta , Congress , budget , Lindsey Graham , Senate Armed Services Committee , supercommittee
Vendors under pressure to better secure IT supply chain
Two senior senators will introduce an amendment to the DoD authorization bill to increase the oversight over the IT supply chain. A preliminary report from GAO finds counterfeit technology parts easily making their way into weapons systems.
Tags: contracting , technology , Carl Levin , industry , DoD , Missile Defense Agency , Senate Armed Service Committee , Raytheon , Vivek Kamath , SMT Corp , Semiconductor Industry Association , Tom Sharpe , GAO , Richard Hillman , counterfeit parts , supply chain , Jason Miller , Brian Toohey
Lawmakers say counterfeits flood Pentagon supply
he leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee say counterfeit electronic parts, mostly from China, are flooding the supply chain for the Pentagon.
Tags: Carl Levin , Senate , Congress , DoD , counterfeit , industry , acquisition , China , Raytheon , L-3
Top GOP senators press Pentagon on specific cuts
Top Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee are pressing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to spell out the "devastating effects" to the military if a special bipartisan panel fails to produce a deficit-cutting plan and nearly $1 trillion in defense cuts kick in.
Tags: DoD , Lindsey Graham , Leon Panetta , Congress , Senate , budget , supercommittee , Senate Armed Services Committee
Lawmakers open to changes in military benefits
The government's promise of lifetime health care for the military's men and women is suddenly a little less sacrosanct as Congress looks to slash trillion-dollar-plus deficits.
Tags: Congress , House , Senate , supercommittee , TRICARE , Tom Coburn , Mark Warner , Carl Levin , pay and benefits , House Armed Services Committee , Buck McKeon
