JIEDDO: The Manhattan Project that bombed

By Peter Cary and Nancy Youssef

The Pentagon’s main effort to counter improvised explosive devices has spent $17 billion, but the results have been disappointing by almost

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"… evaluate JIEDDO’s performance. The issue finally came to a head when the House Armed Services Committee threatened in its report on the 2010 defense budget to withhold half of JI …"

"… ementAs far back as 2007, Congress was growing concerned about JIEDDO. The House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations took a hard look at JIEDD …"

"… s success beyond anecdotes … remains difficult,” said a 2008 report by House Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. It noted that JIEDDO had …"

New life for the F-22 Raptor

By Nick Schwellenbach

Faced with the potential of massive job losses and under heavy lobbying pressure earlier this year, the powerful House Armed Services Commit

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"… b losses and under heavy lobbying pressure earlier this year, the powerful House Armed Services Committee fired a shot across the bow of Defense Secretary Robert Gates' budget deci …"

Howard "Buck" McKeon — Armed Services Committee

By Amy Biegelsen

Rep. Howard McKeon (R-Calif.) answers to the nickname “Buck,” an appropriate moniker for the man about to help oversee one of the biggest ch

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"… f the federal budget. McKeon, 72, will likely become the next chair of the House Armed Services Committee, which keep watch on defense spending and military policy.McKeon’s south …"

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Advisors of influence: Nine members of the Defense Policy Board have ties to defense contractors

By André Verlöy and Daniel Politi

Data by Aron Pilhofer WASHINGTON, March 28, 2003 — Of the 30 members of the Defense Policy Board, the government-appointed group that advis

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"… Representatives where she was a member of several committees including the House Armed Services Committee and the Transportation Committee. In 2002 she lobbied for such clients as …"

Arlington cemetery management failed whistleblower

By Nick Schwellenbach

Arlington National Cemetery management “demonstrated an obvious failure” when it fired Gina Gray, the cemetery’s former spokeswoman and a wh

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"… on and an appropriate remedy for Ms. Gray,” according to the letter.At a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Wednesday about the cemetery scandal, Democrat Vic Snyder of Ar …"

FACT CHECK: New TV ad uses out-of-context quotes from U.S. military leaders

By FactCheck.Org and Eugene Kiely

Cheney ad

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"… tle of the ad — "More Risk" — comes from Mullen's testimony before the House Armed Services Committee on June 23.Mullen, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, was asked about the …"

"… s here."Petraeus, June 23: Now, as chairman Mullen stated today before the House Armed Services Committee, the ultimate decision was a more aggressive formulation, if you will, in …"

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'Top Gun' of travel

By Steve Henn and Robert Brodsky

Spy plane's maker spent roughly $660,000, targeted legislators' aides

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"… f of staff to Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon — a California Republican on the House Armed Services Committee.Robert Herbert, senior policy adviser to Senate Minority Leader Reid, also …"

"… r Republican member of Congress from Virginia and a one-time member of the House Armed Services Committee, said he finds it disturbing that staffers accepted lavish trips from a co …"

Profiteering on location

By Alain Lallemand

Djibouti's repressive regime, not its people, has prospered since 9/11

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"… fast. By the following February, U.S. Gen. Tommy R. Franks was telling the House Armed Services Committee that "we have seen credible reporting of al Qaeda and its regional affilia …"

GOP demands investigation into LightSquared contacts with White House

By Fred Schulte

GOP raises questions about email traffic between White House and LightSquared as donations were made

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"… roval to operate its broadband network.Rep. Michael Turner, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces Subcommittee, cited an iWatch News report in calling …"

"… fused to appear before the committee, which he called an “affront to the House Armed Services Committee.”“I trust Chairman Genachowski is doing something very important this …"

"… ” he said.Ahuja said that the company had been “unable to even get the House Armed Services Committee to allow us to have one representative” at Thursday's hearing. The White …"

Administration technology experts slow to see threats from wireless network

By Fred Schulte

Obama technology experts were slow to see threats from LightSquared network

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"… operate its broadband network.Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee’s Strategic Forces Subcommittee, cited an iWatch News report in calling …"

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