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.