Pentagon
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PentagonAfter DoD Fails Fifth Audit, Comptroller Says ‘Not The Progress I Would Have Hoped For’
The Pentagon has failed its fifth consecutive audit, with the department’s comptroller telling reporters it’s “not the progress I would have hoped for” as it works toward reaching an eventual […]
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PentagonCongress Will Support Authority For Multi-Year Munitions Procurements, LaPlante Says
The Pentagon’s top acquisition official said Friday he believes Congress will approve a provision allowing the department to award multi-year contracts for munitions procurements, which he cited as critical to […]
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Air ForceNorthrop Grumman Advanced Technology Lab Tests Chips for More Than 80 Federal Programs
LINTHICUM HEIGHTS, Md.–The Northrop Grumman [NOC] campus here has a more than five-decade history, beginning as Westinghouse, and today developing a variety of systems, including the Electronically-Scanned Multifunction Reconfigurable Integrated […]
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Nuclear ModernizationTriad Needs All Three Legs ‘At Least In This Current Moment,’ Pentagon Official Says
The Biden Administration will maintain all three legs of the U.S. nuclear triad, which need to be modernized to remain relevant, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. “At least in […]
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Air ForceDoD to Examine Options for Hard and Deeply Buried Targets
While the Biden administration’s Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) has proposed retiring the B83 megaton capable gravity bomb, the Pentagon is to examine nuclear and conventional options against hard and deeply […]
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CongressFormer Government Ethics Official Raises Issue of Members of Congress Holding and Trading Defense Stock
On June 23rd this year, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), sold between $50,001 and $100,000 of Lockheed Martin [LMT] stock held in […]
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PentagonDoD Releases National Defense Strategy With Focus Placed On China, Integrated Deterrence
The Pentagon on Thursday released an unclassified version of the new National Defense Strategy (NDS) that reinforces the “pacing challenge” of China as the department’s prime focus over the more […]
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PentagonFormer Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, Creator of DIU, Dies at 68
Former Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, 68, a Rhodes scholar and theoretical physicist who helmed the Pentagon between 2015 and 2017, died of a heart attack on Oct. 24 at his […]
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Congress
Sen. Warren Questions Propriety of NDIA Officials’ Advocacy of Contractor Inflation Adjustments
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is questioning the propriety of top officials at the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) advocating inflation adjustments for defense contractors. “I am writing regarding my concerns […]
