Tag: Pentagon

The spending bill won't allow the Pentagon to retire older tech like the A-10 fighter jet. (AP/Brian Branch-Price)

Spending bill doesn’t solve Pentagon’s funding problem

Charles Hoskinson · December 16, 2014 10:00 am

Obama thanks troops for work in Afghanistan, West Africa

National Security

Obama thanks troops for work in Afghanistan, West Africa

Susan Crabtree · December 15, 2014 9:38 pm

As of Friday, President Obama had nominated and the Senate had confirmed 295 of his nominees to the federal bench, including of course Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor and Kagan and 53 powerful circuit court judges.Â Â (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

New GOP Senate should put the brakes on Obama judges

Hugh Hewitt · December 14, 2014 10:00 pm

In this handout released by the U.S. Navy courtesy of Northrop Grumman, an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator launches from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on May 14, 2013, in the Atlantic Ocean. (Photo by Alan Radecki/U.S. Navy/Northrop Grumman via Getty images)

National Security

Amid torture debate, why no soul-searching on drones?

Brian Hughes · December 14, 2014 8:42 pm

Ashton Carter listens as President Barack Obama announces Carter as his nominee for defense secretary Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Defense secretary nominee Ashton Carter has back surgery

Brian Hughes · December 13, 2014 3:17 pm

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National Security

Math inconsistencies hamper Pentagon efforts to scale back contracting

Sarah Bedford · December 12, 2014 7:11 pm

It's virtually impossible to gauge the full extent of federal expenditures, because government agencies don't have a unified method of reporting how much they spend, a congressional watchdog said. (iStock Photo)

Watchdog probe pressures Pentagon to control contracted-out spending

Sarah Bedford · December 11, 2014 1:19 pm

Defense Dept. Spent $130M Storing Unused Satellites

Defense Dept. Spent $130M Storing Unused Satellites

Jeryl Bier · December 10, 2014 1:05 pm

Ã¢â¬ÅThe great mistake that runs through most of the debate about TPP ... is that they confuse the economics of trade with the economics of trade agreements,Ã¢â¬ï¿½ Larry Summers said at the AtlanticÃ¢â¬â¢s Summit on the Economy. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Larry Summers is singing my tune

Michael Barone · December 9, 2014 1:47 pm

Unloved Warthog lives to fight another day

Unloved Warthog lives to fight another day

Charles Hoskinson · December 8, 2014 10:00 am

The lame duck Congress is poised to pass a National Defense Authorization Act that cuts the pay and benefits of the entire uniformed active duty military. (iStock)

Lame-duck Congress tries to deliver a lump of coal to military families

Hugh Hewitt · December 7, 2014 10:00 pm

The Guantanamo Review Task Force in 2010 deemed 48 detainees as "too dangerous to transfer but not feasible for prosecution." (AP Photo/Ben Fox)

National Security

Six Guantanamo detainees released to Uruguay

Charles Hoskinson · December 7, 2014 2:57 pm