If sequestration triggers, furloughs begin in late April
If sequestration is triggered next week, unpaid furloughs for civilian Defense Department employees will start in late April, Pentagon officials ...
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Panetta notifies Congress DOD preparing for furloughs
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has notified Congress that the Defense Department is prepared to implement furloughs for civilian personnel ...
Service Chiefs Detail Sequestration Consequences
Top officers from all of the military services today predicted dire consequences if looming automatic, across-the-board spending cuts are allowed ...
Welsh: Sequestration will ‘undermine’ readiness
Unprecedented budget factors have placed the nation's defense strategy in jeopardy, senior Department of Defense leaders told the Senate Armed ...
Defense Officials Call Air Force F-22 Probe Sloppy and Inadequate
When Air Force Capt. Jeff Haney’s F-22 fighter crashed in Nov. 2010, while he was gasping for oxygen in the ...
Bolstering the Front Line of Biological Warfare Response
Biological warfare agents pose more than a hypothetical threat to U.S. military servicemembers. Troops operate in hostile areas where they ...
US Air force to open remaining combat positions to women
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey announced today the rescission ...
DOD Assessment Needed to Determine Requirement for Critical Technologies List
While the Department of Defense (DOD) took steps to address previously identified weaknesses in updating and maintaining the Militarily Critical ...
Memo Tells DOD Components to Plan for Budget Uncertainties
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter has released a memo directing the services and defense agencies to begin planning for ...
Defense Authorization Act boosts pay, requires special training
President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2013 into law, Jan. 2. Among other things, ...
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