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Pentagon to create 20,000 jobs to manage arms buys
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
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WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama's Defense Department plans to create 20,000 new government jobs to help revise how it buys more than $100 billion of weapons each year, the Pentagon's No. 2 official told Congress. The Pentagon also plans to tie contract...
Tags: Pentagon, William Lynn, defense secretary, arms services, deputy defense
Pentagon misses out on big savings
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility The Pentagon purchases thousands of tons of metal for its ships, planes and tanks, but military procurement officials are not in a position to respond to market fluctuations and probably are missing out on huge savings, according to congressional testimony....
Tags: Pentagon, Senate, Iraqi, William Lynn, House Armed Services Committee, buying practices, senate acted, pentagon purchases, Afghanistan, defense secretary
Lynn confirmed by the Senate
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Lynn, bound to manage the largest bureaucracy in the world, lacks management experience, they said...The nominee had been under intense scrutiny in part because his nomination was rolling out at the same time President Barack Obama issued a stringent...
Tags: Senate, William Lynn, Barack Obama, Pentagon, senate confirmed, president barack
Lynn nomination stalls in Senate
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility The Senate was scheduled to vote on his nomination Tuesday, but the session came and went without any action. A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said senators are “working on an agreement” to debate Lynn’s nomination and...
Tags: William Lynn, Senate Finance Committee, Chuck Grassley, Chuck Grassley, Chuck Grassley, Barack Obama, defense secretary, deputy defense
Grassley raises objections to Lynn
Lynn :: MA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility That move came in response to the abrupt departure of former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, who withdrew his nomination as Health and Human Services secretary after he came under criticism for not paying some income taxes and his retainer with a...
Tags: William Lynn, Senate Armed Services Committee, Grassley
McCain drops objection to Lynn appointment
Lynn :: MA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Sen. John McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is dropping his objection to the appointment of a former Raytheon lobbyist to the No...A McCain spokeswoman confirmed Monday by e-mail that the senator will allow the nomination...
Tags: John McCain, William Lynn
Republicans demand details on Pentagon nominee
Lynn :: MA :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility President Barack Obama's decision to waive his own ethics requirements for Pentagon nominee William Lynn caused problems anew Thursday, as Republicans sharply demanded more details on his lobbying ties...But even if it's just Republican bluster, the effort...
Tags: Barack Obama, William Lynn, Bill Lynn, Senate Armed Services Committee, Defense
Gates sets modest Afghanistan goals
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 10 months ago
Credibility Defense Secretary Robert Gates set forth modest goals for Afghanistan on Tuesday, saying that success should be defined as an Afghanistan that is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda, whose people reject the rule of Taliban insurgents and support a legitimate government.
Tags: Barack Obama, Leave Iraq, U.S, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Afghanistan, Pentagon, William Lynn, president barack, Raytheon, Hamid Karzai
Pentagon nominee agrees to sell Raytheon stock
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility A former Raytheon lobbyist nominated to be deputy defense secretary has agreed to sell his stock in the military contractor and similar holdings but won't be forced to step back from decisions related to his former employer, the Pentagon said Friday.
Tags: obama, lobbyists, Barack Obama, Raytheon, Carl Levin, William Lynn, John McCain, William J. Lynn, Pentagon Agrees, pentagon nominees
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