Topic: Bryan Whitman

The Pentagon says it has toughened up security procedures since the website WikiLeaks released thousands of secret war logs.. The Defense Department chose Sunday, with the latest WikiLeaks material coming to light, to give some details about precautions against more unauthorized releases.. ...
Four reporters who were banned from covering trials at Guantanamo have been offered an opportunity to be reinstated by requesting it in writing, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Wednesday.Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon public affairs official, made the offer in a letter responding ...
The cloud of volcanic ash that has paralyzed air travel in Europe has had no impact on the US military's air operations in the United States, the Pentagon said Monday, denying statements to the contrary by a senior US official in Brussels."There ...

EADS mulls tanker contract bid against Boeing

EADS opened the door Friday to a bid against Boeing for a lucrative US Air Force tanker contract after the Pentagon signaled a flexible deadline to accommodate the European aerospace giant.The European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company's expressed interest in the competition ...
European airspace giant EADS has called for a 90-day extension to the tendering process for a multi-billion-dollar deal to supply the US air force with tanker jets, a Pentagon official said Friday."They've indicated to the department that they would like to see ...

Pentagon may speed up air tanker award

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon said on Tuesday it might award a multibillion-dollar aerial tanker contract sooner than planned after Northrop Grumman Corp and Europe's EADS pulled out of the competition, leaving Boeing Co as the sole bidder.Whitman said the Pentagon was ...

Pentagon defends under-fire tanker bid

The US Defence Department on Tuesday defended its bidding practices as fair after Europe and some US lawmakers charged that contract rules threw a major military deal to Boeing.US aerospace giant Boeing is poised to win a 35 billion-dollar contract to build ...

U.S. military drone security breach "fixed": official

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has closed a security breach that allowed insurgents to hack into data feeds from pilotless " drone" aircraft that provide real-time video of war zones, a U.S. defense official said on Thursday.The comments followed a report in ...
The Pentagon said on Friday it was reviewing restrictions imposed on journalists taking photos of wounded soldiers in Afghanistan amid criticism from media freedom activists.The US military command in eastern Afghanistan last month banned the media from releasing photos of soldiers killed ...
The Democratic leader of the US Senate has urged President Barack Obama to fulfill his campaign promise to scrap the ban on gays in the military, in a letter released Thursday.Senate Majority leader Harry Reid appeals to Obama and Defense Secretary Robert ...
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