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Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will submit new offers for a disputed $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, and the Pentagon will pick a winner by the end of the year
Reports on the war's progress from the Pentagon and the GAO offer sharply divergent assessments that mirror the political debate
America's first female four-star general has been nominated, the Pentagon announced Monday.
A Defense Department report warns of the possibility that exotic drugs or implants could create a fearsome new enemy
As president of the Pentagon Memorial Fund, Jim Laychak has been involved in nearly aspect of the project's planning.
The Pentagon called for swift passage of a bill providing additional funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after Republicans blocked its passage in the House.
The secretary of defense will no longer brief retired military officers-turned-network television analysts, the chief Pentagon spokesman said Friday.
As the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on, the Pentagon initiates changes to make military life more family-friendly
The Pentagon is $295 billion over budget on dozens of key programs and taking more time to deliver the systems to the front lines, according to a report released by a government watchdog agency.
An al Qaeda suspect alleged to have been involved in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania that killed 11 people faces war crimes charges, the Pentagon announced Monday.
Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will submit new offers for a disputed $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, and the Pentagon will pick a winner by the end of the year
Reports on the war's progress from the Pentagon and the GAO offer sharply divergent assessments that mirror the political debate
America's first female four-star general has been nominated, the Pentagon announced Monday.
A Defense Department report warns of the possibility that exotic drugs or implants could create a fearsome new enemy
As president of the Pentagon Memorial Fund, Jim Laychak has been involved in nearly aspect of the project's planning.
The Pentagon called for swift passage of a bill providing additional funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after Republicans blocked its passage in the House.
The secretary of defense will no longer brief retired military officers-turned-network television analysts, the chief Pentagon spokesman said Friday.
As the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan drag on, the Pentagon initiates changes to make military life more family-friendly
The Pentagon is $295 billion over budget on dozens of key programs and taking more time to deliver the systems to the front lines, according to a report released by a government watchdog agency.
An al Qaeda suspect alleged to have been involved in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania that killed 11 people faces war crimes charges, the Pentagon announced Monday.
Iraq has made "limited but important" political, diplomatic and economic gains in the past three months, but improvements in security remain "fragile," the Pentagon reported Tuesday.
Congress screams, the Pentagon screams but it's all part of a strange Washington phenomenon. China may be dangerous but it's not clear how exactly
The government says it has shot down a dead spy satellite to protect public safety. But there was little real risk
Defense Secretary Gates says his budget asks for a lower percentage of GDP than the military spent during Vietnam. But his calculation rests on a dubious premise
The Administration is issuing dire warnings if Congress doesn't pass the war funding bill. But just how serious is the money crunch?
Two House Democratic leaders aggressively pushed back Tuesday at the Bush administration's claims the Pentagon will run out of money soon because Congress failed to pass a war funding bill before its Thanksgiving recess.
Growing numbers of military reservists say the government is providing little help to soldiers who are denied their old jobs when they return home
What does the "war on terror" mean for America's small businesses? A government report, released Wednesday, said that military operations related to the war could add as much as $1.7 trillion by the year 2017 to the hundreds of billions we already spend on defense.
Five families who lost relatives in the 2001 terrorist attacks have settled their negligence lawsuit against American Airlines, Boeing Co. and a passenger screening company
The Chinese government called allegations that its military hacked the Pentagon's computer network over the summer "groundless", the state-run Xinhua news agency reported late Tuesday.
The Pentagon's counterintelligence office is shutting down a database that contained information gathered within the United States, including intelligence about Iraq war protesters.
The Pentagon's latest recruits are not soldiers, spies or scientists but spin doctors, bloggers and YouTube DIY filmmakers as it prepares to launch a vigorous new media campaign in support of its ongoing military efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pentagon has begun a new "rapid response" operation to quickly respond to news media stories critical of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the war in Iraq, as well as other stories the Defense Department leadership doesn't like.
President Bush and other top officials joined thousands gathering across the country Sunday in tearful tributes, prayers and quiet reflection on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
It is one of the most ambitious and daring fighter jet projects ever conceived by the Pentagon -- a four-year program involving the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marines and nine partner countries.
A U.S. warship has successfully knocked down a short-range missile fired from Hawaii, the Pentagon has said, amid global concerns about a possible North Korea missile test.
Video showing a plane crashing into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, was released publicly for the first time Tuesday, a judicial watchdog group said.
Jurors saw more disturbing evidence of the effects of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks as the focus of an al Qaeda plotter's sentencing trial shifted Tuesday from the World Trade Center to the Pentagon.
Two senior military officers are known to have challenged Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on the planning of the Iraq war. Army General Eric Shinseki publicly dissented and found himself marginalized. Marine Lieut. General Greg Newbold, the Pentagon's top operations officer, voiced his objections internally and then retired, in part out of opposition to the war. Here, for the first time, Newbold goes public with a full-throated critique:
The Pentagon has once again investigated itself! And -- have a seat, get the smelling salts, hold all hats -- the Pentagon has once again concluded the Pentagon did absolutely nothing wrong and will continue to do so.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that universities that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus, even if they oppose the Pentagon's policy barring people who are openly homosexual from serving.
The administration's competence problem is already at the yadda, yadda, yadda stage. They were supposed to protect us from terrorist attack, they said Iraq would be a cakewalk, that we only needed 50,000 troops. They failed to plan for the occupation or Hurricane Katrina or the prescription drug plan. Yadda.
Security is stepped up at a September 11 terror target as well as New York City's massive transit system after four terror bomb attacks were attempted in London Thursday.
Emergency crews responded to a simulated explosion Wednesday near the Pentagon as part of a drill to test their responses.
Looking ahead, I predict that water will be a massive issue as the impact of global warming increases in its severity.
Military officials predict that the latest proposed base closings will make the armed forces more flexible and efficient, while shaving billions of dollars from the Pentagon's budget.
The Pentagon on Friday recommended closing 33 major military installations and many smaller facilities across the United States, sparking fierce reactions from lawmakers who had hoped their states would be spared.
The small, unmanned vehicle barreled on minitank tracks across the tarmac, looking more like a playground toy than a sophisticated and lethal weapon of war.
The Pentagon has come a long way from its '80s splurges on $435 hammers, but it still has a ways to go, according to a recent report by the General Accountability Office. For the 26 programs the GA...
Under pressure from advocates of open government and a former CNN journalist, the Pentagon has released nearly 300 photos of U.S. troops killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflicts.
A criminal investigation of an L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. (LLL) unit that supplied defective parts for military radios has expanded to include at least several other programs involving the unit, government officials familiar with the case said.
John Negroponte, the President's pick for the first Director of National Intelligence (DNI), hasn't even been confirmed for the job yet, but he is already facing serious turf battles in the U.S. intelligence community.
A U.S. flag, whose owner said it flew over the Pentagon on 9-11, was for sale online again Wednesday despite questions about its authenticity.
Tests conducted at mail facilities outside the Pentagon and at other locations around Washington are negative for the presence of anthrax, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday.
Two Pentagon mail facilities were closed and nearly 300 workers tested for exposure to anthrax after sensors detected the bacteria in mail at the buildings, Pentagon officials said Monday.
The U.S. Department of Defense plans to add more sites on the Internet to provide information to a global audience -- but critics question whether the Pentagon is violating President Bush's pledge not to pay journalists to promote his policies.
Pentagon spending for services rendered by the nation's airlines -- several of which are fighting for survival -- has increased by 15 percent so far this year, according to a report published Saturday.
President Bush said Thursday that elections in Iraq should go ahead as scheduled January 30.
Key officials from the Pentagon, the FBI and the CIA met in closed session Thursday with a Senate panel charged with developing legislation to implement recommendations from the independent 9-11 commission.
A surveillance video from Washington's Dulles International Airport the morning of September 11, 2001, shows four of five hijackers passing through security checks before boarding the plane they would crash into the Pentagon.
An Iraqi prisoner was held at a secret prison near Baghdad for about nine months, the Pentagon said Wednesday.
The Pentagon has revealed that 37 people have died in detention in Iraq and Afghanistan, with one official saying at least some deaths "may be suspicious."
In response to criticism from its own military attorneys, the Pentagon insisted Thursday that interrogation techniques used on al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are "fully consistent with international law."
The interrogation program at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison was so "out of control" that the CIA "pulled their people out," the author of a series of articles about abuse of prisoners at the facility said Sunday.
The author of a 53-page Army report critical of the "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuse" of some Iraqi prisoners is scheduled to testify before a Senate committee Tuesday.
With the Army general who investigated abuse of prisoners in Iraq set to testify before a Senate committee Tuesday, Pentagon sources told CNN there are 200 to 300 more photographs of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.
Senators from both sides of the political aisle complained Tuesday that Defense Department officials did not inform them about investigations into abuse of Iraqi prisoners.
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments this week about whether the 595 detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba may challenge their captivity in federal court.
Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley has asked the Pentagon to explain why it continues to use camouflage fabrics recently found to contain prohibited toxins, according to a letter obtained by CNN that was dated Tuesday.
The Pentagon's investigation into allegations a Halliburton subsidiary may have overcharged for gasoline delivered to Iraq last year is now a criminal probe, the Pentagon said Monday.
The Pentagon's investigation into allegations a Halliburton subsidiary may have overcharged for gasoline delivered to Iraq last year is now a criminal probe, the Pentagon said Monday.
Global warming may be bad news for future generations, but let's face it, most of us spend as little time worrying about it as we did about al Qaeda before 9/11. Like the terrorists, though, the se...
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has ordered a 90-day review into allegations of sexual assaults against female soldiers in Iraq and Kuwait.
A federal judge cleared the way Wednesday for the Pentagon to resume vaccinating military personnel against anthrax after lifting his injunction against the mandatory inoculation program.
"It sounds like maybe they got too imaginative in this area" --Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz on the Pentagon's scrapped plan to create a market for bets on terrorism scenarios
American tanks move down a narrow street as explosions rattle the ramshackle town. Behind them, infantrymen outfitted in the latest high-tech gear creep forward, looking out for snipers, as well as...
The next time American armed forces go to war--if they're not already fighting in Iraq as you read this--the nature of the battle will be unlike anything the world has ever known. Afghanistan provi...
Call it plug-and-play warfare. A network of small electronic devices carried aboard airborne drones and mud-caked Humvees could soon allow U.S. soldiers to create ubiquitous wireless networks from ...
When the Pentagon put out a call for help with the war on terrorism, it was an invitation for obscure, slightly paranoid, 007-wannabe companies to come forward. The firms listed below may find that...
At 8:48 a.m. on Sept. 11, as members of the National Association for Business Economics sat in the grand ballroom of the now demolished Marriott World Trade Center hotel, they heard a loud explosio...
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