Pentagon Plots Appeal on NSPS Labor Decision: DOD officials say they will work with the Justice Department to appeal the decision by US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan that faulted the collective bargaining provision, among other things, in the new National Security Personnel System. A Pentagon spokesman did not reveal the basis for the appeal.
A new Air Force plan for how many fighters it needs in the next decade marks a sharp upturn from what it thought it needed just seven years ago. But analysts worry that the aspirational plan now in Congress' hands doesn’t make a tight enough connection to national strategy.
