Defense
House panel backs retirement benefits boost for border officers
Bill also limits funding for new DHS personnel system.
Defense
Panel votes to crack down on veterans' grave vandals
Metal grave markers are being stolen from the grave sites of veterans either as an act of vandalism or to get the metal to sell to scrap yards.
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House panel backs big boost for veterans' programs
Funding would pay for 1,400 more claims processers, above the 703 additional personnel Bush requested to cut the backlog in requests for benefits.
Defense
Positive trends in Iraq belie deeper security challenges, says top military officer
Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen says services already are preparing to brief the next president after the elections.
Defense
Committee revives debate over green card allocation
Members continue to push legislation that would allow more highly skilled foreign workers into the United States.
Defense
Republicans seek hearing on withdrawal of border troops
GOPers argue there will be "nowhere near" enough Border Patrol agents to secure the border when National Guard troops are withdrawn next month.
Defense
Appropriators add $2.3 billion to to DHS spending bill
Plan includes a boost in funding for grant programs and efforts to find and deport criminal illegal immigrants inside the United States.
Defense
Republican lawmakers press DHS on border fence
House members seek 700 miles of double-layered fencing along the border with Mexico.
Defense
Broken machines, delays plague secure ID card program
Problems include a dispute between DHS and the program's prime contractor over additional funding to resolve technical errors.
Defense
Hill panels split over amount Defense can transfer to Army
House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee has agreed to allow the shift of only $7.3 billion of $9.7 billion requested.
Defense
Bush orders contractors to check employees' legal status
Associations representing federal contractors fear E-Verify system is so faulty it will misidentify legal workers.
Defense
Bush: Troops could miss paychecks, civilians could be laid off
Congress must pass war supplemental funding measure to keep Defense operations going, White House says.
Defense
Lawmaker challenges Defense official's stance on new destroyer
Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., has taken his fight to put the DDG-1000 destroyer program on hold directly to the Pentagon's top acquisition official.
Defense
Gates offers Bush new Air Force leadership team
Gen. Norton Schwartz, a 35-year veteran with a background in Air Force special operations, is Defense secretary's pick as chief of staff.
Defense
Union calls for investigation into TSA turnover
The attrition rate for employees covered under the security agency’s new pay-for-performance system was 21 percent in fiscal 2007.
Defense
Lawmaker seeks to set standards for DHS handling of sensitive unclassified info
Move comes in wake of White House effort to set up consistent system across government for safeguarding sensitive documents.
Defense
Gates: Mishandled nuclear weapons doomed Air Force officials
Investigations have showed widepsread problems in dealing with intercontinental ballistic missile inventory.
Defense
Defense chief asks two Air Force officials to resign
The Air Force has been involved in several high-profile scandals in the last year.
Defense
Lawmaker seeks to require military to buy U.S.-bred bomb-sniffing dogs
Most military dogs now come from fabled European bloodlines.
Defense