News

House budget chair calls for deep cuts in non-defense spending

Calling for controversial reductions in mandatory spending and putting a squeeze on nondefense-related discretionary programs, House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle, R-Iowa, revealed the details of his fiscal 2004 budget resolution Wednesday.

Defense

Supplies at sea

Replenishing an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf requires some tricky but critical maneuvers.

Defense

CIA executive will head new terrorist intelligence center

A career CIA terrorism analyst with a background in Middle Eastern affairs will head the government’s new terrorist intelligence center, the White House announced Tuesday.

Defense

Pilots set to head into hostile—but familiar—territory

Many fighter pilots operating from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Constellation in the Persian Gulf are veterans of operations in Iraq’s southern no-fly zone. For now, they’re more concerned about tricky night carrier landings than in whatever Saddam Hussein might throw at them.

Management

Davis seeks to put reorganization on fast track

President Bush needs the flexibility to reorganize federal agencies as the nation faces the prospect of war and security threats loom, House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., said Monday.