While the airbase currently enjoys wide support from Virginia Beach at large, the Pentagon Base Realignment and Closure commission has proposed closure of Oceana within the next decade.

Almost immediately afterwards ( within less than a day ) the Pentagon announced the cancellation of PAM, and by the end of the week John Poindexter, head of the DARPA unit responsible for developing it, had offered his resignation ; the PAM had first been proposed & funded in 2001, and Poindexter joined DARPA in December 2002.

The institute ’ s share of the proposed international affairs budget, $ 43 million, is minuscule: less than one-tenth of 1 percent of the State Department ’ s budget, and one-hundredth of 1 percent of the Pentagon ’ s .”

In 2011, The Rutherford Institute took up the cause of Laura George, founder of the Oracle Institute, who wanted to build a " Peace Pentagon ," a proposed interfaith study center and retreat, on the banks of the New River in Independence, Va.

The Pentagon released its proposed list for BRAC 2005 ( see Base Realignment and Closure, 2005 ) on May 13, 2005 ( a date given the moniker " BRAC Friday ," a pun on Black Friday ).

According to an article in Newsweek, a Pentagon official proposed inserting a US Navy SEAL team to engage in a " snatch rope " operation against Krekar ; however, the plan was allegedly rejected because a shooting confrontation between the SEALs and Norwegian police would have triggered a diplomatic disaster between Norway and the United States.

The other two proposed Arlington sites were a plot of undeveloped land closer to the Pentagon and a site in the neighborhood of Rosslyn.

This has since been generalized into the prediction market idea which the Pentagon proposed to operate as part of Total Information Awareness ; however, this proved controversial as it would theoretically let assassins predict and then benefit from their predictions, which they would cause to come true.

The lifetime cost of the F-35 program has since been estimated by the Pentagon at $ 1. 45 trillion.

In 1995, 50 years after the end of World War II and five years after German reunification, the AFRC Berchtesgaden was turned over to Bavarian authorities to facilitate military spending reductions mandated within the Base Realignment and Closure program by the United States Congress and the Pentagon during the administration of US President Bill Clinton.

* PoliTechBot. com-' Transcript of Pentagon briefing on Poindexter's " TIA " program ' ( November 24, 2002 )

program regarding the parallels between his actions in releasing the Pentagon Papers and those of Pfc.

* Pentagon military analyst program

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This program investigated the reason for Muslim hatred of the United States, and how the Sept. 11th attacks in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon were viewed in the Muslim world.

* The " Mobile Autonomous Robot Software " research program was started in December 2003 by the Pentagon who purchased 15 Segways in an attempt to develop more advanced military robots.

The program was part of a $ 26 million Pentagon program to develop software for autonomous systems.

Other alternatives include the Pentagon Federal Credit Union Foundation ( PenFed Foundation ) Asset Recovery Kit ( ARK ) program.

Hersh claims to have spoken to a senior CIA official who said the program was designed by Rumsfeld to wrest control of information from the CIA, and place it in the hands of the Pentagon.

When the B-2 bomber program was threatened in 1995, the AdTI organised a letter to President Bill Clinton signed by seven former Pentagon chiefs: Dick Cheney, Caspar Weinberger, Frank Carlucci, Harold Brown, James Schlesinger, Donald Rumsfeld and Melvin Laird.

The Army handpicks most of the students who participate in the residential program, but the student body always includes officers from the other military branches, civilians ( from the Pentagon, State Department, and the National Security Agency ), and several dozen senior officers from foreign countries.

Since then, graduates of this program served in key positions in Iraq, Afghanistan, all combatant commands, and at the Pentagon.

Wonder Woman erased all traces of her previous life as Diana Prince and established a new Diana Prince identity, becoming an Air Force captain, ( eventually major ), serving in the Pentagon as adjutant to Col. Trevor in the Special Assignments Bureau, a special military intelligence program designed to interdict global crises before they develop.

During a Pentagon briefing, on 6 January 2011, revealing budget efficiencies and reinvestment possibilities, Secretary of Defense Gates announced his intention to cancel the EFV program.

After the broadcast of these exclusive reports, the Pentagon and Veteran's Administration opened their own ongoing investigations into the long classified program.

On October 5, 2005, Pentagon team recommended " further delaying the Army's Future Combat Systems program " in light of the costs of the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and expected declines in future budgets.

In the United States, the program is managed by the National Security Staff working out of the White House, with The Pentagon and intelligence agencies playing lead roles.

Dr. Gene Seagram leads the top-secret Pentagon program Meta Section, which secretly attempts to leapfrog current technology by 20 to 30 years.

However, as the project gained momentum, Parkinson's responsibilities shifted to managing the program, and, perhaps most importantly, ensuring that the Pentagon and the United States Congress were fully supportive of the initiative.

621B transitioned to the larger NAVSTAR program, and, rather than taking an administrative position at the Pentagon, Parkinson decided to retire from the Air Force.

* March 20, 2006 Pentagon: Photos

LtGen Conway responding to questions at a Pentagon briefing, June 2006.

On 23 March 2006, The Pentagon and the British Foreign Office both commented on the instrumental role JTF2 played in rescuing the British and Canadian Christian Peacemaker Team that were being held hostage in Iraq.

A Pentagon report from September 1, 2006 said attacks had risen by 24 % in the month from June to August 2006 as violence spread north beyond Baghdad.

On 7 July 2006 a memo was issued from The Pentagon directing that all military detainees are entitled to humane treatment and to certain basic legal standards, as required by Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev at the Pentagon in 2005Tokayev met with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Barry Lowenkron, the U. S. assistant secretary of state for human rights, on 25 September 2006 in Rice's suite in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.

* " Pentagon Thievery: An Interview with Jeffrey St. Clair ", by Joshua Frank, LewRockwell. com, April 3, 2006, retrieved 25 April 2007

A cartoon published January 29, 2006 attracted the ire of the Pentagon in the form of a protest letter signed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

# July 2002-June 2006, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force, The Pentagon, Washington, D. C.

On February 10, 2006, the day following Allen's resignation, the Washington Times reported that " According to a military source, Allen resigned to protest the White House's refusal to lean on the Pentagon about the issue allowing military chaplains to be more explicit about their faith.

The Pentagon announced on May 31, 2006 that LtGen Mattis was chosen to take command of I Marine Expeditionary Force, based out of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton.

In 2006, the Arlington County and Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved plans of bringing railed streetcars to Columbia Pike along an either a 5 or stretch from the Pentagon to the Skyline area.

On May 1, 2006, Mr. Calvery was selected as the Director of the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.

In February 2006, the Pentagon published a study of the so-called Harmony database documents captured in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon announced plans in January 2006 to cut $ 236 million over five years from the $ 25 billion FCS 2007-2011 budget.

In 2006, The Independent ran a story that the " Pentagon develops brain implants to turn sharks into military spies ".< Ref > http :// news. bbc. co. uk / 2 / hi / americas / 4767428. stm </ ref >

Abdul Rahim Wardak speaking at the Pentagon in 2006.