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Pentagon officials have decided to expand a program that brings the government and Internet service providers together in an effort to secure information resources used by the defense industry. In. . . Read more

Date: 5/16/2012

With key authorizing and appropriating panels in the House of Representatives having now marked up their versions of the fiscal 2013 defense budget, it appears the Army's plan to shut down most of. . . Read more

Date: 5/16/2012

Global Zero -- an organization whose sole reason for existence, as its name clearly indicates, is to promote the elimination of all nuclear weapons -- has published a new report calling for deep reductions. . . Read more

Date: 5/16/2012

2012 has already demonstrated signs that it will be a year of significant progress in the development and deployment of missile defenses. Just last week, the Missile Defense Agency conducted a successful. . . Read more

Date: 5/14/2012

The lead vessel in the Littoral Combat Ship program has reached the point in its development when self-appointed watchdogs begin to question its price and performance. The Project on Government Oversight. . . Read more

Date: 5/14/2012

As a result of repeated restructurings, the F-35 fighter program is now expected to deliver only about a quarter of the production aircraft originally planned by 2017 -- roughly 400 planes rather. . . Read more

Date: 5/11/2012

Greece must reduce government spending by $15 billion next month or it will be suspended from receiving international loans that keep the country afloat. This will be especially challenging since. . . Read more

Date: 5/11/2012

Recently, the Lexington Institute published. . . Read more

Date: 5/11/2012

The crash of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 with 47 people on board during bad weather in Indonesia is a tragedy that will deal a heavy blow to the Russian plane-maker's hopes of becoming a major player in. . . Read more

Date: 5/10/2012

At this month’s NATO Summit in Chicago, the alliance’s leaders will roll out a specific set of proposals under the banner of “Smart Defense” for how to improve their deployable military strength.. . . Read more

Date: 5/10/2012

Yesterday, Jim McNerney, the CEO of Boeing, fired a devastating broadside at the Obama Administration. In a public forum, he observed that ". . . . very few people in the Administration share life. . . Read more

Date: 5/9/2012

Despite raising tactical connectivity to its top modernization priority, the Army is proposing to cut fiscal 2012 funding for the backbone of its future warfighting network by half. Service leaders. . . Read more

Date: 5/9/2012

One of the most amazing features of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan was the explosive growth in the role of private contractors on the battlefield. There is some public awareness of this phenomenon. . . Read more

Date: 5/8/2012

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England has written an unusually blunt critique of how the Obama Pentagon is managing the military's biggest weapons program. The full-page essay appearing. . . Read more

Date: 5/8/2012

The Army is making a series of penny-wise and pound-foolish decisions to save money by gutting its industrial base. One such move is the ill-conceived proposal to shut its only tank plant for three. . . Read more

Date: 5/7/2012

If there was any doubt that the Democratic Party views government workers as a core constituency it should be dispelled by a recent letter by 24 Democrat senators to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.. . . Read more

Date: 5/7/2012

The Department of Defense has proposed a change in the way it buys goods and services that could have far-reaching and destructive consequences, not only for the nation's warfighters but also for. . . Read more

Date: 5/4/2012

Modern weapons platforms are among the most complex systems man has ever designed. Building a warship, combat aircraft or armored fighting vehicle requires bringing together components, assemblies. . . Read more

Date: 5/3/2012

Today, it is no exaggeration to say that the fate of two of Europe's -- really the world's -- greatest collective organizations of nations hang by a proverbial thread. Having successfully ended the. . . Read more

Date: 5/2/2012

As the U.S. military prepares to turn over security responsibilities in Afghanistan to indigenous forces, a key issue for planners is assuring those forces have adequate air power. Once U.S. pilots. . . Read more

Date: 5/2/2012

In Washington, many of the really important fights over laws, budgets, government policies and regulations take place out of public view. The joke around town is this is because, as in the case of. . . Read more

Date: 5/1/2012

April was an unusually active month for foreign missile tests, with India, Pakistan and North Korea all launching their latest, longest-range ballistic missiles. The Indian and Pakistani missiles. . . Read more

Date: 5/1/2012

Josh Rogin of The Cable recently reported that the Obama Administration may be about to reverse its decision not to sell new F-16s to Taiwan. Last fall, the administration, responding to repeated. . . Read more

Date: 4/30/2012

With substantial cuts in end-strength looming for both the Active and Reserve Component of the U.S. military, it is not surprising that large reductions of military infrastructure also are becoming. . . Read more

Date: 4/27/2012

In a move that surprised no one, the air and land forces subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee has voted to give the Army more money than it requested for heavy armor next year so that. . . Read more

Date: 4/27/2012

This week, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) continued its efforts to reverse planned defense cuts. In a series of sweeping moves, the committee blocked the Army’s efforts to temporarily end. . . Read more

Date: 4/26/2012

Robert J. Stevens last night informed Lockheed Martin's board of directors that he intended to retire as the company's Chief Executive Officer, and the board then voted to elevate his long-expected. . . Read more

Date: 4/26/2012

In the fiscal 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress attempted to address a longstanding dispute between the Department of Defense (DoD) and industry over rights to the technical. . . Read more

Date: 4/24/2012

The continuous pressure from Pentagon policymakers on F-35 prime contractor Lockheed Martin to cut pension costs has finally borne fruit: workers at the fighter plant voted by a huge margin Sunday. . . Read more

Date: 4/24/2012

I have been trying to understand the concept of the hybrid threat and why the U.S. military, in general, and the Army, in particular, seems to act like a deer caught in the headlights by this problem.. . . Read more

Date: 4/23/2012
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