Tag: Defense Spending

Survivors of the Battle of Ia Drang greet each other during a Veterans Day ceremony at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the National Mall November 11, 2005 in Washington. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Military retirement changes must be fair to service members

amber-barno · April 27, 2014 4:00 am

DynCorp International won $2.8 billion in State Department contracts between 2002 and last year, primarily to train and equip law enforcement and counter-narcotics forces in Afghanistan, according to a new report by SIGAR.

Defense contractor DynCorp reaps two-thirds of State Dept.’s Afghanistan reconstruction dollars

Michal Conger · April 26, 2014 4:00 am

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, said Friday that his company would file a lawsuit to protest a satellite launch contract the Air Force awarded to a joint Lockheed Martin and Boeing venture. (AP Photo)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX to challenge launch-vehicle contract awarded to Lockheed-Boeing venture

Tim Mak · April 25, 2014 4:00 am

Spy plane outlasts Cold War, but not defense cuts

Donna Cassata · April 23, 2014 5:21 pm

This Image provided by the US Air Force shows two U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor aircraft flying in trail behind a KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft after inflight refueling during a training mission off the coast of Florida on April 2, 2007. (AP Photo/US Air Force/Thomas Meneguin)

Beltway Confidential

Top Air Force general doesn’t know if F-22 successor will even fly

Joel Gehrke · April 23, 2014 4:00 am

President Obama departs late Tuesday for a trip to Asia, his fifth since taking office. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

President Obama’s theoretical ‘pivot’ to Asia

Charles Hoskinson · April 22, 2014 4:00 am

In this undated photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, made available on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012, a carrier-borne J-15 fighter jet takes off from China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zha Chunming)

Examiner Editorial: A rising China shadows Obama’s Asia trip

Washington Examiner · April 22, 2014 4:00 am

This artist rendering provided by the U.S. Air Force, shows the AEHF-1 satellite in orbit above the earth. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force)

What will US do to counter China’s space offensive?

Jed Babbin · April 16, 2014 4:00 am

Dozens of lawmakers have signed a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urging them to impose sanctions on a Russian arms exporter that the Pentagon is procuring helicopters from. (AP Photo)

National Security

Lawmakers urge Jack Lew, John Kerry to stop U.S. purchases of Russian helicopters

Tim Mak · April 11, 2014 4:00 am

Aircraft carrier hits budget turbulence

Tim Mak · April 4, 2014 4:00 am

The IG recommended that the Defense Department put a single official in charge of the "revolving door" database. (Photo: ThinkStock)

National Security

Defense Department struggles to track its ‘revolving door,’ IG finds

Kelly Cohen · April 3, 2014 4:00 am

The guided-missile destroyer USS Barry launches a Tomahawk cruise missile from their location in the Mediterranean Sea to support U.S. military forces assisting the international response to the unrest in Libya. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC3 Jonathan Sunderman)

The Pentagon is cutting key weapons without knowing what it really needs

Jed Babbin · April 2, 2014 4:00 am