by Kira Boyd & Emily Hoerner | Oct 20, 2011 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Of $206 billion spent on private contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, up to $60 billion was lost to waste, fraud and abuse, according to a report by a special government commission released this week. The report — released Wednesday at a...
by Kira Boyd & Emily Hoerner | Oct 13, 2011 | National Security
WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense, under fire for its unreliable financial accounting methods, will be ready for its first-ever audit by 2014, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Congress Thursday, promising to beat by three years a congressional mandate to...
by Kira Boyd & Emily Hoerner | Oct 11, 2011 | National Security
WASHINGTON — Despite their prevalent, tech-savvy online presence, terrorist groups may not yet have demonstrated the ability–or even interest in attaining the ability–to launch cyberattacks. National security experts are not arguing against better...
by Kira Boyd & Emily Hoerner | Oct 6, 2011 | National Security
WASHINGTON—The House Republican Cybersecurity Task Force issued recommendations Wednesday to guide cybersecurity legislation that avoid mandates in favor of incentives to push the private sector to protect customers’ data. The recommendations echo Republican themes of...
by Kira Boyd & Emily Hoerner | Oct 5, 2011 | National Security
WASHINGTON—The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee accused China on Tuesday of industrial cyber espionage against the United States, calling it “brazen and widespread theft of intellectual property from foreign commercial competitors.” “China’s economic...
