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Building a Presence

Defense

Pentagon takes expanded role in closing bases

The Pentagon is taking a far greater role than it has in the past in deciding which military bases should be closed in 2005. As a result, the military services will have less say in deciding which bases are shut down or realigned.

Defense

Base politics

The elections may be over, but the politics of base closure is under way.

Defense

Sailors and civilians

Unlike sailors, Navy civilians get little in the way of career training and guidance. The service's personnel chief says that's about to change.

Management

Military depots can’t tell how much work they outsource

Military depots do a poor job of tracking how much work they contract out, according to a new General Accounting Office report.

Defense

The 'say yes' force

Is the overstressed Air Force ready for an all-out assault on Iraq?

Magazine

Green Troops

Defense

Green troops

Are environmental restrictions forcing the military to go into battle with inexperienced forces?

Defense

Depot dollars

The Army and Navy could learn a thing or two from the Air Force’s plan to invest in its repair depots.

Defense

Air force launches billion-dollar plan to modernize depots

The Air Force wants to spend nearly $1 billion over five years to rebuild and modernize its aging depots as part of a larger effort to operate more efficiently.