Defense

Senators critical of Energy Department’s nuclear weapons spending

Lawmakers express concerns about efficiency, signal they are considering a funding cut.

Defense

Report encourages Pentagon to focus more on homeland defense

Conventional weapons systems and missile defense system should be cut back, analysts say in a new study.

Defense

Report: Annual missile defense spending could double in seven years

Costs could reach $19 billion a year by 2013, the Congressional Budget Office says.

Defense

Vaccine treatment centers for military personnel partially funded

Lawmakers granted $3 million of $6 million requested for the healthcare facilities, leaving the military services to make up the difference.

Defense

Defense Department helps secure former Soviet 'antiplague' sites

Sites established as a means of detecting, assessing and thwarting spread of dangerous diseases are viewed as potential proliferation and public health threats.

Defense

Senate panel backs bill to create biodefense agency

New organization would act “as the single point of authority” for research and development of medical countermeasures against bioterrorism and natural disease outbreaks.

Defense

CIA report offers fresh critiques of Iraq intelligence

Newly declassified study says intelligence agency managers failed to exercise quality control checks on analysis.

Defense

Homeland Security again pushes upgrade to animal disease research facility

Department seeks to create massive new “National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility.”

Defense

Military vaccines trigger special treatment for 1,200

Cases correspond with a massive Defense Department effort to vaccinate U.S. forces against anthrax and smallpox before and after the invasion of Iraq.

Defense

Army to fund vaccine treatment centers

Future of centers—which deal with severe side effects of anthrax, smallpox and other biological defense vaccines—was in question.

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Funding for Defense vaccine treatment centers in question again

Congress did not specifically fund the network of centers in fiscal 2005, and the Defense Department may not pick up the tab for keeping them in operation.

Defense

New missile defense director vows more secrecy

More of the program will become classified as it resumes major flight testing after a two-year hiatus.

Defense

Army provides no funds for vaccine care centers

The service hasn't budgeted any money in fiscal 2005 for centers that treat soldiers with complications from military-administered vaccines.