...volumes about the status and effectiveness of (the Defense) department's efforts to address the plague of sexual assaults...majority of the offenders were military members or Defense Department civilians or contractors, the report said.Within...

...Republican measure to keep the government operating would ease some of the pain of automatic spending cuts slamming the Defense Department, the nation's senior military leaders told Congress on Tuesday.Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff painted...

...opportunities were not lost on at least 15 senior State and Defense department officials interviewed in the report, including...the projects - 75 percent - were paid for by the Defense Department.___Online:Special Inspector General for Iraq...

...two others - a female foreign service officer with the U.S. State Department and an employee with the U.S. Defense Department - died in a suicide bombing in southern Zabul province during a trip to donate books to Afghan students.The deaths...

...Afghanistan's 23 brigades around the country can operate on its own without coalition help of some kind, the U.S. Defense Department said in its most recent semi-annual report to Congress.Attacks by insurgents around the country have not decreased...

...suggests there is at least some feeling that he could survive the investigation.The initial expectation is that the Defense Department inspector general's probe into the emails will be done within weeks rather than months. The final decision would...

...This review will benefit both of the communities affected by the eventual outcome - Anchorage and Fairbanks.The Defense Department intends a public meeting in each community, although clearly that isn't likely to be sufficient. Public meetings...

...project the kind of security interests that are in America's interests," she said. "This is not about the Defense Department or the State Department. ... This is about the United States of America. And we need to have a responsible conversation...

...procurement system. Then he and the president can present Congress with a slimmed-down budget proposal that matches the Defense Department's mission. For more than 60 years, presidential and congressional commissions have been calling on the military...

...discretionary" portion of the federal budget - the agencies that actually perform government functions and the Defense Department operations that aren't specific to the wars.Federal agencies could absorb the automatic cuts that would result...