Posts Tagged ‘Pentagon’

How Big Is The NSA


NSA Has Gotten So Big, Area Around It Has 112 Acres Of Parking Spaces — Raw Story

It’s not just AT&T that operates or once operated a secret call center in San Francisco intercepting your phone calls anymore:

From the road, it’s impossible to tell how large the NSA has become, even though its buildings occupy 6.3 million square feet – about the size of the Pentagon – and are surrounded by 112 acres of parking spaces. As massive as that might seem, documents indicate that the NSA is only going to get bigger: 10,000 more workers over the next 15 years; $2 billion to pay for just the first phase of expansion; an overall increase in size that will bring its building space throughout the Fort Meade cluster to nearly 14 million square feet.

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Pentagon Laying The Groundwork For Defense Cuts

Momentum Builds For Defense-Spending Cuts — Foreign Policy

For the first time since 2001, there is real and building momentum to include caps or even reductions in defense spending as part of the bipartisan drive to address the United States’ runaway deficits.

Defense spending, which has more than doubled since the Sept.

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U.S. Military Still Trying To Develop A Better Mule

Unmanned Systems: Marine Corps Bets on Robotic Mule — War Is Boring

Since 2003, the U.S.

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A Profile On The New Head Of CENTCOM Gen. James N. Mattis



Petraeus’s Successor Is Known for Impolitic Words — New York Times

WASHINGTON — To those who have served under him, Gen.

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What Will The Pentagon Do When It Has No Money?

Pentagon Developing ‘Emergency Plan’ In Absence Of War Funds — The Hill

The Pentagon is “seriously planning” for the possibility that Congress will not pass emergency war funding before lawmakers head to the August recess, said Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell.

The Pentagon is developing an “emergency plan” to deal with the lack of supplemental funds for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Morrell said at a press briefing Wednesday.

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