The Office of Personnel Management will offer buyouts and early retirement packages to 299 employees as part of the agency’s cost-cutting efforts, Federal Times reports. Stephen Losey writes OPM Director Elaine Kaplan told employees
MoreThe House Appropriations Committee has included a 5 percent increase in defense spending for fiscal year 2014 as part of the panel’s $967 billion budget blueprint, Federal Times reported Sunday. Sean Reilly
MoreDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel will meet with defense leaders from Japan and South Korea later this week to discuss North Korea’s aggressive actions such as the recent nuclear tests, Defense News reports.
MoreThe U.S. Navy will start transporting five more patrol ships to Bahrain with three set to deploy this summer, Defense News reported Monday. Mark Faram writes the Tempest, Squall and Thunderbolt are
MoreThe Federal Aviation Administration will keep contract towers open as the recently-enacted Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013 allowed the agency to reprogram $253 million in funding for the towers, Aviation Week
MoreThe U.S. Defense Department has overhauled the âbunker busterâ bomb meant to attack Iranâs nuclear facility in case peace negotiations fail, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Adam Entous and Julian Barnes
MoreThe White House is considering actions trade sanctions, indictments in U.S. courts and several cyber defense and offensive measures aimed at countering cyber attacks alleged to have come from China. Tensions rose
MoreThe U.S. has deployed Lockheed Martin-built F-22 fighter jets to South Korea for a joint military exercise with that country as North Korea continues to make threats, Reuters reports. Paul Eckert writes
MoreJulius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, will announce Friday he is stepping down after four years at the helm, the Wall Street Journal reports. Danny Yadron reports Tom Wheeler, a
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