Oct 13, 2008 Pentagon's 2010 budget to be squeezed by financial bailouts Lawmakers in search of cash to bail out the financial industry could look for deep cuts in defense budgets, industry leaders fear. "No one really yet knows when or to what extent defense spending could be affected,...
Internet Under Siege He who controls DNS, controls the internet. Recently, security researcher Dan Kaminsky revealed the existence of a basic design flaw in the internet's addressing system that essentially exposed every online network to hackers. The flaw was in the net's Domain Name System DNS, the system...
WASHINGTON -- A high-ranking Air Force official on Wednesday pressed the Pentagon to expedite the award of a disputed $35 billion contract for new aerial refueling tankers so the service can retire Eisenhower-era aircraft. Gen. Arthur Lichte, who runs Air Mobility Command, told reporters that either aircraft offered...
WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon declined comment Wednesday on Pakistani charges that at least 15 people were killed in a cross border raid by Afghan-based international forces. "I don't have anything for you on those reports," said Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman, refusing further comment. A spokesman for the...
WASHINGTON AFP — Three more detainees have been transferred from the US "war on terror" detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their home countries, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Two of the detainees, who were not identified, were taken to Afghanistan and the third to Pakistan, it said in...
WASHINGTON AFP — A third US ship carrying humanitarian aid was due to arrive in Georgia next week, while two others that unloaded their aid in Batumi remain in the Black Sea, the Pentagon said Thursday. The USS Mount Whitney, flagship of the US 6th Fleet, "is going to...
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is in danger of missing a self- imposed deadline to award a politically charged $35 billion deal to Boeing or Northrop Grumman for Air Force refueling tankers ahead of the next administration. Boeing's recent request for more time leaves the Pentagon with even less room to...
WASHINGTON AFP — Two detainees at the Guantanamo war-on-terror jail were recently transferred to Algeria, the US Department of Defense said Tuesday, adding that about 260 people are still being held at the facility. The department declined to identify the two prisoners or provide other details, but said they...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US military said Monday that an attack by coalition forces in Afghanistan last week which allegedly killed dozens of civilians was a "legitimate" assault on Taliban forces. "We continue at this point to believe that this was a legitimate strike against the Taliban," said Pentagon...
WASHINGTON AFP — Russia is still not honoring its ceasefire agreement with Georgia and continues to maintain a "large presence" of troops in the former Soviet republic, the US Defense Department said Monday. "They are still not living up to the terms of the ceasefire agreement" which Moscow signed...
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's intelligence arm is adding more polygraph studios and relying on outside contractors for the first time to conduct lie detection tests in an attempt to screen its 5,700 prospective and current employees every year. The stepped-up effort by the Defense Intelligence Agency is part...
NEW YORK AP -- The roar of 1,000 motorcycles accompanied a steel beam from the World Trade Center on Saturday as it traveled to Pennsylvania, where it will be part of a memorial to those who died there in a Sept. 11 airliner crash. Hundreds of current or...
WASHINGTON AFP — Senior Pentagon officials are debating whether the US military should undertake independent operations against Islamic militants operating in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas, The Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. The newspaper said these internal equipment debates followed US intelligence warnings that Al-Qaeda and other militant groups are...
WASHINGTON AFP — US aerospace giant Boeing said Friday it may exit the rebidding for a massive contract to build US Air Force aerial refueling tankers unless the Pentagon allows more time to rework its proposal. The Department of Defense DoD was forced in June to rebid the 35-billion-dollar...
WASHINGTON AFP — The United States has formally demanded the return of five US military vehicles seized by Russian forces in Georgia but Moscow has not indicated it will do so, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday. "The United States did demarche the government of Russia with respect to the...
WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon said Friday there has been only some "minor" movement of Russian forces in Georgia and it was hard to tell whether they were withdrawing from the country. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman noted news reports of Russian troops movements around the city of Gori, but...
WASHINGTON AFP — The United States has received no assurances from Russia that it will return US military vehicles seized in Georgia, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. Russian forces seized "a handful" of Humvees, four-wheeled all-purpose military vehicles, in the Black Sea port of Poti, where they were awaiting...
WASHINGTON AFP — The United States has ruled out the use of US military force in Georgia, but the Pentagon will almost certainly be looking for other chess pieces to move to check a more aggressive Russia, analysts say. Will it rebuild and strengthen the militaries of Georgia and...
WASHINGTON AFP — The Pentagon said Wednesday it has no information that close US air support resulted in casualties among French troops ambushed by insurgents in Afghanistan. The newspaper Le Monde reported that French troops wounded in the fighting said NATO air strikes missed their targets and hit French...
WASHINGTON AFP — The US military provided close air support to French forces who were caught in a fierce battle with insurgents in Afghanistan that claimed the lives of 10 French soldiers and left 21 others wounded, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. "The US provided close air support to...
