Ten Air National Guardsmen from six states have come together at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to construct a 6,000-square-foot Expeditionary Legal Complex for military commissions, reports Army Sgt. Michael Owens. The $10 million project will include mobile offices around the complex. “We are working on schedule, and I am confident that we will be finished by mid-March … maybe earlier,” said Air Force Lt. Col. James Starnes, commander of the 474th Expeditionary Civil Engineering Squadron.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
