On Dec. 13, 2011, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta gave a speech to U.S. troops in Djibouti.

In a Dec. 12, 2011, letter, LightSquared executives ask the Pentagon and Transportation Department to investigate the leak of information to Bloomberg suggesting that the company's new communications network interfered with 75 percent of certain Global Positioning System receivers that were recently tested.

The Dec. 12, 2011, Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost of the "Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation Reform and Modernization Act of 2011." In the report, CBO found that it could not "determine whether the aggregate cost of mandates would exceed the annual threshold established in [the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act] for private-sector mandates ($142 million in 2011, adjusted annually for inflation). However, CBO expects that few public entities would be affected and estimates that the aggregate cost of the intergovernmental mandates would probably fall below the annual threshold established in UMRA ($71 million in 2011, adjusted annually for inflation)."

On Dec. 8, 2011, the Missile Defense Agency posted on Federal Business Opportunities a revised statement of work for the Cape Cod Upgraded Early Warning Radar effort. Note: The document is marked "for official use only."

In a Dec. 12, 2011, statement, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pays tribute to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy, who intends to retire in February 2012.

The Dec. 6, 2011, briefing slides outline the Navy Energy Program.

The Dec. 5, 2011, broad agency announcement outlines the goals of the Adaptive Vehicle Make program's crowd-sourced Fast Adaptive Next-Generation Vehicle.

In a Dec. 7, 2011, Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Icahn Enterprises expresses interest in Navistar International Corp. and Oshkosh Corp. merging together.

In a Dec. 7, 2011, letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Sens. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Jon Tester (D-MT) call for the intercontinental ballistic missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base -- which houses 150 out of the 450-missile ICBM fleet -- to be left intact.

In a Nov. 29, 2011, letter, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency informs Congress of a proposed $304 million foreign military sale of Joint Direct Attack Munitions and related equipment.

In a Nov. 22, 2011, request for information, the Naval Sea Systems Command seeks input from industry "regarding its capability to provide a Countermeasure Anti-Torpedo (CAT) and Torpedo Warning System (TWS) in potential future procurements."

In a Dec. 8, 2011, letter, Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) asks the newly appointed fiscal year 2012 defense authorization conference committee to keep the House's language that bans funding for upgrades to a naval station in Mayport, FL, where the Navy intends to move one of the nuclear-powered aircraft carriers stationed at Naval Station Norfolk, VA.

In a Dec. 1, 2011, letter, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) calls on Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to hold a briefing on any possible decisions the secretary might make regarding the C-27J aircraft program.

In an Oct. 11, 2011, letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, 12 congressmen including Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD), chairman of the House Armed Services tactical air and land forces subcommittee, argue that the C-27J aircraft is essential for "rapid response, rescue and recovery efforts."

On Dec. 8, 2011, the Pentagon held a teleconference briefing from Afghanistan with Royal Marines Maj. Gen. David Hook, director of the International Security Assistance Force's force reintegration cell.

The unsigned copy of version 1.0 of the Joint Operational Access Concept, dated Nov. 22, 2011, which was blessed by senior military leaders, "proposes a concept for how joint forces will achieve operational access in the face of armed opposition by a variety of potential enemies and under a variety of conditions, as part of a broader national approach."

On Dec. 3, 2011, the Pentagon submitted its first appeals package to Congress for the fiscal year 2012 defense authorization bill.

In a Dec. 6, 2011, letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MO) and Ranking Member John McCain (R-AZ) write that they are "troubled by serious concerns that the Director, Operational Testing and Evaluation, Dr. Michael Gilmore, raised in an internal memorandum on October 21, 2011, about plans to begin training flights at Eglin Air Force Base for the conventional take-off and landing (CTOL) version of Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) this fall."

The Dec. 7, 2011, Government Accountability Office report finds that "the National Guard's [chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive Enhanced Response Force Packages] face personnel, training, and equipment challenges that have adversely affected their preparedness to effectively execute the CBRNE mission."

On Dec. 7, 2011, Army Lt. Gen. Frank Helmick, the deputy commanding general of operations for U.S. Forces-Iraq, held a teleconference briefing with reporters at the Pentagon.

In a Dec. 6, 2011, request for information published in Federal Business Opportunities, the Army seeks "to obtain technical and cost information from manufacturers regarding the availability of Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) or Government-off -the- Shelf (GOTS) modular compact aerostat and payload deployment units with launch commanded by a hand held controller."

On Nov. 18, 2011, the Army held an industry day for the Joint Multi-Role concept.

In a Dec. 6, 2011, Federal Register notice, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security published "a third proposed rule that describes how articles the President determines no longer warrant control under Category VII (military vehicles and related articles) of the United States Munitions List (USML) would be controlled under the Commerce Control List (CCL)."

On Dec. 6, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech to the first plenary session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

In a Dec. 3, 2011, statement, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced that U.S. foreign military sales passed the $30 billion mark for the fourth consecutive year, with the fiscal year 2011 total reaching $34.8 billion.

In a Dec. 2, 2011, speech at the Saban Center, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta discussed U.S. policy toward Israel.

On Dec. 2, 2011, Pentagon spokesmen George Little and Capt. John Kirby discussed Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Joint Strike Fighter alternate engine and the National Guard, among other topics.

In a Dec. 5, 2011, Federal Register notice, the Defense Department announces it plans to host "a public meeting to initiate a dialogue with industry regarding the use of open-source software in DOD contracts" on Jan. 12, 2012.

The November 2011 Congressional Budget Office report "examined the Department of Defense's plans and proposals for airships," both piloted and unpiloted.

The November 2011 Congressional Budget Office report analyzes the Navy's amphibious warfare ships for deploying Marines overseas.

In a Nov. 29, 2011, letter, House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee Chairman Todd Akin (MO) and readiness subcommittee Chairman Randy Forbes (VA) call on Navy Secretary Ray Mabus to not make short-term budget cuts, such as retiring ships early, that would result in higher down-the-road expenses.

In a Dec. 1, 2011, letter to all 100 senators, the National Guard Association of the United States calls on Congress to allow the head of the National Guard to become a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

In a Nov. 30, 2011, report on the Taiwan Airpower Modernization Act of 2011, the Congressional Budget Office "estimates that . . . enacting the bill would not affect revenues and would have insignificant effects on spending subject to appropriation."

In a Nov. 30, 2011, Federal Business Opportunities notice, the Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center announces "its intent to form non-contractual relationships with vendors of [Joint Tactical Radio System]-capable radios to make the JTRS Enterprise Network Manager (JENM) compatible with these radios."

On Dec. 1, 2011, the full Senate passed the fiscal year 2012 defense authorization bill.

On Dec. 1, 2011, the Pentagon held a teleconference briefing with Paul Reid, senior civilian representative for Regional Platform South West, and Michael O'Neill, U.K. senior representative in Southern Afghanistan and head of the Civil-Military Mission and Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Helm.

The Nov. 4, 2011, briefing slides outline the Air Force's energy science and technology vision.

The November 2011 statement outlines an upcoming Air Force analysis of the way the service conducts close air support missions.