Management

Obama Budget Offers a Refreshed Management Agenda

Proposals echo-first term initiatives; list of priority goals to come next week.

Nextgov

New Mexico Lets Nuclear Waste Remain Above Ground After Radioactive Leak

Atomic waste-filled containers are being temporarily stored outside faulty underground facility.

Defense One

Pentagon’s QDR Proclaims Military Ready To Do It All

The Pentagon's strategic plan assures Congress the U.S. military still will defeat anyone, anytime, anywhere – just for far less money. By Kevin Baron

Defense One

Congress Must Be Willing to Do More With Less Defense Spending

Those who think America spends too much for national defense are as mistaken as those who think that larger defense budget numbers translate into strong security. By Rep. Duncan Hunter

Defense One

Obama Requests ‘Smaller’ $500 Billion Defense Budget

President Obama’s fiscal 2015 budget request, released on Tuesday, vows to field a smaller military and still protect the nation by projecting a global force. By Stephanie Gaskell and Kevin Baron

Defense

Crimea: The Greatest Challenge to Geopolitics Since the Cold War

As Russia confronts Ukraine, the definition of modern military intervention hangs in the balance.

Defense One

Syrian Electronic Army Threatens to Hack CENTCOM

A group of anonymous hackers backing the Syrian government is threatening to take down U.S. Central Command. By Patrick Tucker

Defense One

Pentagon Suspends U.S.-Russian Military Exercises

The Defense Department has halted all military-to-military exercises with Russia in response to the invasion of Crimea in eastern Ukraine. By Stephanie Gaskell

Defense

McCain, Obama Team Agree: No Realistic Military Option on Ukraine

But the Republican faults the president’s foreign policy for the newly emboldened Putin.

Defense

Top Armed Services Democrat: Don’t Bet on Sequestration Going Away

But the Pentagon budget starting in fiscal 2016 breaks the congressional spending caps.

Nextgov

White House on NSA: Facebook Does It Too

The Obama administration studies data-privacy fears.

Defense

Analysis: No, American Weakness Didn't Encourage Putin to Invade Ukraine

In fact, we've pushed U.S. power further east than anyone could have imagined when the Soviet Union collapsed.

Defense One

The Army Wants You to Build Them a Laser Truck

The military is pushing ahead with directed energy weapons. by Patrick Tucker

Defense One

U.S. Warns Russia a Ukraine Intervention Would Be a ‘Grave Mistake’

Military leaders are keeping a close eye on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Ukraine as the President Obama warns Russia not to intervene. By Stephanie Gaskell

Nextgov

Radiation Leak Spells Uncertainty for Nuclear Waste Dump

It is unclear how the U.S. will handle remnants of past nuclear-arms production.

Defense One

Will Obama End the War on Terror?

Despite President Obama's pledge to repeal the Authorization for the Use of Military Force when it expires this year, sources say negotiations to get it done haven't even begun. By Michael Hirsh and James Oliphant

Defense

Stray Dogs: How ATF Agents Lose Their Guns

They've done so at nearly double the rate of their FBI counterparts, often due to simple carelessness.

Defense One

Karzai Blasts Dempsey Over ‘Zero Option’ Remarks

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says Gen. Martin Dempsey’s comments are just ‘intimidation’ to get him to sign the troop deal. By Stephanie Gaskell