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Panetta aims to cut billions from military budget
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says that despite proposed cuts, Pentagon will still be able to fight one major conflict at a time.
Tags: DoD , budget cuts , DoD Update , Federal Drive
Air Force seeks outside advice on Dover penalties
Air Force Secretary Michael Donley is asking a retired general and two experts to review the punishments in mishandling of body parts at Dover, Del., military mortuary.
Tags: DoD , Air Force , Dover Air Force Base , Michael Donley , John Dorrian
Lawsuit filed over ape in noose at federal agency
Tags: NGA , intelligence community , Mirlin Toomer , DoD
Congress clears $662 billion defense bill
Tags: DoD , Senate , Harry Reid , Rand Paul , Treasury Department , Bob Menendez , Dianne Feinstein , Mark Kirk , Kelly Ayotte , Wendy Sherman , David Cohen , Carl Levin , FBI , Robert Mueller
Report: Remains of 274 troops dumped in landfill
Tags: Norton Schwartz , Michael Donley , Carolyn Lerner , OSC , Air Force , DoD ,
Expert wonders if it's time to put F-35 out of its misery
Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information, says that the latest holdups with the F-35 joint strike fighter program are nothing new. He suggests that it might be time for the DoD to pull the plug on the ill-fated program and seek other solutions.
Tags: Winslow Wheeler , DoD , F-35 , Federal Drive , Lockheed Martin , acquisition
Panetta reaps fruity reward for bin Laden takedown
During a Panetta dinner party in early November, California restaurateur Ted Balestreri made good on his bet to open a rare, $10,000 bottle of 1870 Chateau Lafite Rothschild in honor of the successful raid that killed bin Laden in Pakistan.
Gen. John Abizaid to head up Dover mortuary panel
Retired general spent 34 years in the Army. He will be in charge of a review to evaluate the changes made to the mortuary procedures.
Tags: John Abizaid , DoD , Dover Air Force Base , Richard Carmona , DoD Report
Defense hawks insist on sparing military from cuts
Tags: DoD , Mitch McConnell , John McCain , Howard McKeon , Harry Reid , budget , supercommittee , House Armed Services Committee , John Boehner , G. William Hoagland
Supercommittee's failure to reach deal brings range of reactions
The administration, lawmakers and others are sounding off on the failure of the supercommittee to reach a deal for cutting more than $1 trillion from the deficit. Facing automatic, across-the-board cuts — half from defense and half from civilian agencies, beginning in 2013 — the consensus now seems to be Congress should work to come up with an alternative deficit-reduction plan.
Tags: Congress , House , Senate , budget , supercommittee , deficit reduction , TechAmerica , DoD , Barack Obama , sequestration , FMA , Patricia Niehaus , Jack Moore
