Author Archives: Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D

Boeing Highlights Anti-Jam Features Of Wideband Global Satcom Communications satellites are the glue that holds together America’s global military posture. Without uplinks to orbital relay nodes, there would be no way for ships at sea or warfighters in remote locations such as Afghanistan to quickly and securely communicate [Read More...]
Should Mabus Step Down As Navy Secretary To Focus On Gulf Coast Recovery? Navy secretary Ray Mabus is an inspired choice to lead the Obama Administration’s Gulf Coast recovery initiative. When he was elected Mississippi’s governor in 1988, he was the youngest politician to claim that post in over a century. He went [Read More...]
Hudson Reorganizes BAE Systems U.S. Unit Into A More Manageable Structure Linda Hudson, the recently appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of BAE Systems Inc., informed workers this week that the company was being reorganized into five business units focused on either hardware or services. BAE Systems Inc. is the United [Read More...]
Next Marine Commandant Must Resolve Frictions With Navy Over Missions And Money Initial reaction to the selection of aviator James Amos as the next Commandant of the Marine Corps has been almost entirely positive. There is also much support for the apparent decision to make the charismatic Joe Dunford Assistant Commandant. Some [Read More...]
Defense Industry Consolidation: This Time Will Be Different The pace of merger and acquisition activity in the defense sector has quickened recently as company executives grow apprehensive about a potential downturn in military demand beginning with the 2012 budget. Because there is only one customer who matters in [Read More...]
Labor Unrest In China Signals That Political Instability May Be Growing China is the great economic success story of the new millennium. Its economic growth has outpaced that of every other industrialized country, and it now routinely out-produces America in such basic commodities as aluminum, steel and cement. Under the watchful [Read More...]
Pentagon Insourcing Undercuts Search For Savings Issue Brief Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has delivered a series of speeches this year stressing the need to eliminate unnecessary military spending. Gates claims to have slashed future weapons spending by $330 billion since the Obama Administration began, [Read More...]
Young Lincoln Saw The Real Danger To Democracy More Clearly Than We Do Today You’d think that 180 years after farm boy Abraham Lincoln began his political career on the American frontier, we’d have a little more perspective than he did on what it takes to sustain democracy. Well, guess again. Despite his lack [Read More...]
Obama Administration Accelerates Shutdown Of Manned Space-Flight Program The Obama Administration plan to reorganize America’s manned space-flight program is making rapid progress on at least one front: dismantling what was inherited from previous administrations. The last mission of the Space Shuttle is now only five months away, after [Read More...]
Pentagon Cost Cutting: Generating Savings From Operations & Maintenance Will Be A Challenge The U.S. Department of Defense plans to spend over $200 billion in fiscal 2011 on operations and maintenance. That’s more than any other country spends on its entire military establishment. Some observers think “O&M” is a good place to look [Read More...]
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