The recent budget agreement will provide the Pentagon $56 billion in budget relief compared to the discretionary spending caps over the next two years, but it doesn’t lessen DOD’s need…
The Pentagon cannot afford to wait any longer to harvest the savings from a new round of base closures, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in the written testimony he submitted…
TAMPA — Mayor Bob Buckhorn isn’t ready to say he’s fully on board but he may be warming toward a plan to launch a pilot ferry service between Tampa and…
Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary since December 2013, has been asked to step down from his role as the public face of the Pentagon by new Defense…
If lawmakers don't enact a Homeland Security budget by Friday, the Coast Guard will be forced to reduce operations, Coast Guardsmen will have to work without pay, and disbursements for…
WASHINGTON — As US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter crossed the nation last week previewing the Pentagon’s fiscal 2017 budget request, a few trends appear to be forming for the Department…
Air Mobility Command began 2014 at breakneck speed in support of the country's ramped-up drawdown in Afghanistan. By year's end, AMC had taken on two more major — and unanticipated…
The eight counties comprising the Tampa Bay region, including Sarasota and Manatee, form the 19th largest economy in the United States — with a population of 4.43 million that could…