Price Tag Grows for Defense's Personnel System
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The Defense Department's new civilian personnel system will cost more than the $158 million estimated by the Pentagon, a congressional report suggests.
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The U.S. Army National Guard,  battered by its major role in the Iraq war, announced on  Thursday it would increase enlistment bonuses to attract new  recruits and seek $20 billion to replace arms and equipment.
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The Pentagonâs proposed budget of $515.4 billion represents the highest annual military spending, when adjusted for inflation, since World War II.
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Servicemen and women will receive a pay an above-inflation pay rise of 2.6%, the defence secretary, Des Browne, said today
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The House on Wednesday passed a new defense policy bill that includes a pay raise for troops.
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Decreasing sales threaten the defense contractor's stock price.
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The Senate passed a defense policy bill that would offer more help to troops returning from combat and set conditions on contractors and pricey weapons programs.
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The Senate on Friday passed a defense policy bill that would offer more help to troops returning from combat and set conditions on contractors and pricey weapons programs.
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The Pentagon said on Tuesday it awarded more than $2.6 billion worth of contracts to BAE Systems Plc, Force Protection Inc and a Navistar International Corp unit to build another 3,126 mine-resistant vehicles for U.S. soldiers.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- United Defense Industries Inc. (UDI) said the value of a vehicles upgrade contract for the Taiwanese military has increased to $112.2 million.
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Despite persistent pay gaps for the military, legislative fixes exacerbate short-term funding problems.
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The Pentagon is filling its ranks with young people who haven't finished high school -- and a critical report says that kind of Army will be more expensive
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WASHINGTON - Increasing numbers of National Guard and Reserve troops who have returned from war in Iraq and Afghanistan are encountering new battles with their civilian employers at home. Jobs were eliminated, benefits reduced and promotions forgotten...
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The United States will spend more than $500 billion on security this year, a high-water mark that is creating boom times in the armaments industry.
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First there's $784 billion for defense, and that's just the beginning.
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Darpa, the Pentagon's mad science division, got a $324 million boost in the Defense Department's new budget -- a 10 percent increase. Which means lots more cash for giant blimps, next-gen wireless networks, Mach 6 planes, shape-shifting drones, and improvised bomb-beaters.
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Booming orders for new military  aircraft boosted overall orders to U.S. factories by 0.5  percent to a seasonally adjusted $371.51 billion in October,  the Commerce Department said on Thursday, though demand was  flat when defense was excluded.