Defense Daily

Moves in Congress to cut $85 million in funding won’t greatly delay a planned Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) program that would be installed in Europe, Lt. Gen. Trey Obering, […]

By Jen DiMascio The leader of the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) yesterday vowed to block a war supplemental from moving forward unless the president agrees to change course in Iraq. […]

By Michael Sirak The Air Force is planning to conduct a demonstration of the RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned sensor aircraft next year in the Pacific to showcase the platform and […]

By Jen DiMascio The Senate was poised late yesterday to pass the bill to authorize the Pentagon to spend $648.8 billion during the fiscal year. From here, a conference committee […]

By George Lobsenz The Energy Department must conduct more experiments and research–and provide for more independent review of those studies–if it is to make a convincing case that its proposed […]

By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last week awarded the New York City Police Department a $3.25 million grant to establish a network system that will link […]

By Geoff Fein The Air Force Special Operations variant of the V-22 Osprey this week will begin its operational test and readiness review (OTR&R)–a comprehensive examination of all the developmental […]

The Army yesterday announced it fielded its 200th One-System Remote Video Terminal (OSRVT) to Iraq and Afghanistan in September. Soldiers using an OSRVT can display the sensor feed from any […]