Author Archive
Defense
Will the U.S. Keep Buying Medicine for 'Black Swan' Attacks?
Lawmakers will have to decide whether it's worthwhile to guard against relatively unlikely biological attacks.
Defense
Terror May Become a Bigger Focus at Med School
A biochemistry-course lecture on nerve agents could become part of coursework.
Defense
Pentagon: B-61 Bomb Update Faces Possible Delays
Project's time line faces risks from separate work under way at the Defense and Energy departments.
Defense
U.S. Nuclear Lab Wraps Up Security Update 'Under Budget,' Despite Surprise Costs
Earliest cost estimate was far greater than a projection NNSA adopted later on.
Defense
Watchdog: U.S. Struggles to Track Nuclear-Arms Design Records
Missing data exposes the U.S. nuclear arsenal to an array of unnecessary costs and risks
Defense
Potential Suicide Bomber in Sochi May Indicate Broader Threat to Olympics
Former U.S. counterterrorism official warns of possible larger conspiracy.
Oversight
Contractors Slammed for Uranium Project's Ballooning Expense
NNSA was 'overly optimistic' in its assumptions, auditors say.
Oversight
Lawmakers Fault Pre-Boston Attack Intel Sharing
'He was on our radar screen, and then he was off,' lawmaker says of the deceased suspect.
Defense
Days After Ricin Mailings, Pentagon Says it Wants a Vaccine
No antidote or means of prevention yet exists for ricin.
Management
Tired, Poorly Trained Guard Dogs Could Endanger Nuclear Arms Site
Tennessee site gets the animals on a 5-year contract worth nearly $15M.
Defense
How Pressure Cookers Get Classified as a WMD
The Justice Department is using an expanded definition of the term.
Defense
Pentagon Saves National Guard WMD Unit That Helped in Boston
Hagel sought to dismantle the team but then requested 2014 funding for it.
Tech
Pentagon Seeks High-Tech Nuke Radiation Defenses
DARPA office is looking for pre- and post-exposure treatments to counter radiation's short-term health effects.
Defense
New Defense Chief Addresses Massive Cuts
Chuck Hagel issues warning within hours of taking office.
Tech
U.S. to finalize avian flu funding policy in weeks
Global pause took effect last January after bioterrorism fears caused a panel to recommend more studies.
Defense
Sequestration endangers new bomber, Air Force secretary warns
Michael Donley says 'every program would be affected if sequestration were to hit.'
Defense
Security debate shadows nuclear chief's departure
Watchdogs have been seeking D'Agostino's resignation for months.
Defense
Hagel pick could signal U.S. policy shift on Iran
Nomination might pave the way for a peaceful solution to the nuclear standoff.
Management
U.S. to push for new anthrax vaccine by 2017
The federal government has sought for years to develop a successor to BioThrax.
Defense
U.S. plans trial distribution of anthrax vaccine in early 2013
Project would examine the potential to more widely distribute the countermeasure to first responders on a voluntary basis.
