The test
flight program for the Marine Corps' Joint Strike Fighter variant faces
challenges in getting back on schedule as officials contend with operating
limitations that require grounding the aircraft in common weather conditions
including steady wind, wet tarmacs and nearby lightning, according to Pentagon
officials and documents.1207 words
Defense Secretary Robert Gates intends to disestablish the major Pentagon offices that handle computer networks by transferring many of their functions to the Defense Information Systems Agency and other organizations, according to a recent memo issued as part of Gates' Pentagon efficiency initiative.
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Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter is slated to hold a closed-door meeting next week to announce a series of measures designed to improve efficiencies and reduce contracting costs, according to an internal bulletin reviewed by Inside the Pentagon.
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Pentagon acquisition chief Ashton Carter will soon identify a slate of initiatives designed to save billions within the Pentagon's procurement shop, according to a senior defense official.
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The Pentagon has alerted Congress that millions of dollars in the Cooperative Threat Reduction program must be shifted to guard nuclear arms, destroy chemical weapons and eliminate strategic systems behind the former Iron Curtain.
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NATO has no plans to move its Allied Command Transformation (ACT)
away from Norfolk, VA, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said this
week. The announcement comes in light of the Pentagon's plans to shutter U.S.
Joint Forces Command -- based in Norfolk -- as part of Defense Secretary Robert
Gates' efficiencies initiative. "It makes sense [for ACT] to be located in
Norfolk," Rasmussen told reporters. But, he added that NATO is working on
reforms of its own agencies. "My goal is to make our internal structures lean
and more effective," he said.96 words
The
prioritization of deployed V-22s in Afghanistan has improved availability rates
to the point that it is generally near around 70 percent, but resulting low
availability for non-deployed V-22s brings the entire fleet down into the 50th
percentile range, according to Col. Greg Masiello, V-22 program manager.668 words
NATO will
assume the same time lines for a "phased adaptive approach" to missile defense
as prescribed by President Obama last year, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen
said this week.396 words
The Missile Defense Agency last week completed an Airborne Laser Test Bed intercept attempt against a boosting short-range ballistic missile but failed to destroy the target.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced last week it is seeking proposals addressing the development of "next generation sensors for fields, forces and time building upon established control and readout techniques from atomic physics."
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A 2008 attack
against Defense Department classified computer networks helped create U.S.
CYBERCOM, according to the Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for
Information Dominance David Weddel, whose office handles both IT and
intelligence matters for the Navy. The counter attack, dubbed Operation Buckshot
Yankee, raised "the implications of network security to the highest levels,"
Weddel said in a Sept 1. interview with sister publication Inside the Navy.252 words
The Navy is
pushing back against a recent Government Accountability Office report that
stated the Littoral Combat Ship's anti-submarine warfare package will not add
significant capability to the fleet and criticized the early deployment of
LCS-1 and LCS-2.976 words
The Army is
seeking feedback from industry on plans to quickly field a robotic vehicle that
would follow small groups of soldiers around on the battlefields of Afghanistan
to carry their equipment, according to a Sept. 3 notice published on the Federal
Business Opportunities website.508 words
The Defense
Department plans to deploy a cargo-delivering unmanned aerial system as part of
a joint capability technology demonstration run by the Army's Aviation and
Missile Research Development and Engineering Center and the Marine Corps,
according to service officials.568 words
The Office of
the Secretary of Defense plans to use the M80 Stiletto, its small, speedy
prototype ship commissioned in 2006, as a test bed for new technologies, and
there are no plans to use it again for operational missions, a Defense
Department official told sister publication Inside the Navy last week.634 words
The House Armed Services Committee is expected to urge U.S. Cyber Command officials to address "the big picture" during a Sept. 23 open hearing, according to a congressional source.
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