Defense
Veterans Affairs closer to deploying comprehensive e-Benefits portal
Department expects to have a bare-bones site soon with health, benefits information for vets.
Defense
Key House lawmakers criticize shipbuilding plan
Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., calls Navy plan "pure fantasy."
Defense
GAO: Military should consider breaking up FCS
Army should shift to incremental development based on proven technologies to salvage program, report says.
Defense
Cyberexercise shows need for better training to avoid major network failures
During the largest cyberexercise ever organized, backup systems worked but personnel need more training, DHS official says.
Defense
Undoing tanker deal would hurt industry, Northrop Grumman executive warns
Supporters of losing bidder Boeing are weighing legislative options for overturning contract to build 179 tankers, worth as much as $40 billion.
Defense
Military and civilian pay are competitive, quadrennial review board finds
Commission recommends Pentagon seek more flexibility in rewarding high performers and retaining skills.
Defense
Feds losing war on information security, senators told
Experts testify that preventing cyberattacks is getting harder.
Defense
Top Defense commander hints at taking offensive actions in space, cyberspace
Head of U.S. Strategic Command says he envisions eventually assigning brigades, battalions, wings and groups "to conduct network warfare."
Defense
Rising Joint Strike Fighter costs could put pressure on Defense budget
Overall cost of construction and operation is approaching $1 trillion, GAO says.
Defense
Contractors are doing core acquisition jobs, Defense official says
Pentagon’s top procurement executive notes danger of outsourcing inherently governmental tasks.
Defense
Panel questions cost of contractors in war zones
Democrat cites example of defense contract personnel eating in taxpayer-funded facilities at a cost of $14,000 a person.
Defense
Appropriators urge DHS to see if grants are improving security
According to GAO, the department has never developed a way to measure achievements resulting from the aid.
Defense
Defense Information Systems Agency director to retire in July
Air Force Lt. Gen. Charles Croom will be succeeded by Rear Adm. Elizabeth Hight, the first Navy head of DISA.
Defense
Defense, VA lay out plans to improve health care for wounded soldiers
For now, families must navigate a stovepiped system with "a fistful of business cards," says father of a wounded soldier.
Defense
Democrats pledge to raise issue of Iraq waste, mismanagement
Senate appropriators suggested they would use the information to fight Bush's $102.5 billion supplemental request for the war.
Defense
Air Force now supports alternate engine program for F-35
Secretary tells panel that the second engine would give the military a hedge in the event of problems with the primary one.
Defense
House chairman asks agencies to probe Blackwater
At issue is whether the company can declare that its security guards are independent contractors, not employees.
Defense
House report criticizes Homeland Security’s workforce diversity
DHS says data is outdated, points to success of Hispanic and disabled employees.
Defense
Senior administration officials refuse to join hearing on signing statements
House panel had asked representatives from the Defense and Justice departments to testify on the effect of President Bush's statement on fiscal 2008 defense authorization bill.
Defense