Topic: U.S. Department of Defense
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will begin talking publicly next month about the results of a U.S. strategic review undertaken this year to guide the Pentagon as it cuts hundreds of billions of dollars in military spending.Discussion of the strategy ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States reserves the right to retaliate with military force against a cyberattack and is working to sharpen its ability to track down the source of any attack, the Pentagon said in a report made public on Tuesday.The ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is still crafting a legal framework to guide any offensive moves in cyberspace, months after the Pentagon unveiled a broad cyber strategy, the head of the military command responsible for such operations said on Tuesday.Deliberations on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday that cutting $450 billion in security spending over the next decade would take the Pentagon "to the edge" and appealed for U.S. lawmakers to avoid further cuts in national security.At a hearing ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten years after the United States embarked on a war against terrorism in the rubble of the September 11 attacks, the country finds itself financially exhausted and facing hard strategic choices as it grapples with new budget realities.After spending ...
ATLANTA (Reuters) - A U.S. Defense Department employee based in Afghanistan has been charged with taking a $95,000 bribe from a contractor after federal authorities said they found his backpack stuffed with cash.Desi Deandre Wade, 39, of Climax, Georgia, was arrested Wednesday ...
A foreign intelligence service swiped 24,000 computer files from a US defense contractor in March in one of the largest ever cyberattacks on a Pentagon supplier, a top Defense Department official revealed."It is a significant concern that over the past decade, terabytes ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co and Rolls Royce Group Plc asked the Pentagon on Thursday to let them resume development, at their own expense, of a controversial alternate engine for the multinational F-35 fighter jet.At stake is potential business that General ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's top arms buyer on Wednesday predicted more scrapping of big-ticket arms programs starting as soon as the 2013 fiscal year due to tightening U.S. defense budgets."There undoubtedly will be more cancellations of that kind," Ashton Carter, undersecretary ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In what officials admit is a major breach of security, a document describing design features intended to make a new Defense Department building bomb-resistant has been posted on a public government website.The document, comprising a 30-page narrative and hundreds ...
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