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Trump’s Wall Needs Added Measures To Be Truly Effective The political fire and brimstone associated with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has obscured two key facts. The first is that physical barriers of the right kind in the right place ...
Naval Warfare: Cost Increase On Stealthy Destroyers Not Caused By Shipyard (From Forbes) The Navy is building the most technologically advanced surface combatants in history at Bath Iron Works in Maine.  It is a challenging program, and this week the service disclosed that the cost of constructing three "Zumwalt-class" warships has increas ...
Littoral Combat Ship Likely To Continue Past 40 Hulls The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is like the cat with nine lives. It has survived more near-death experiences than just about any other Navy program in modern times. First there was the problem with trying to build a military vessel based on commercial s ...
Why BAE Systems Scored Big On The Air Force’s Secret Bomber (From Forbes) When Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James revealed the names of seven major subcontractors on the next-generation B-21 bomber last month, she didn't say what tasks each of them would be performing.  In the case of BAE Systems, though, the role ...
U.S. Army Would Be Wise To Learn From Navy Helicopter PBL Experience The U.S. Army faces a budgetary dilemma when it comes to its aviation portfolio, the largest single cost item in its budget. In essence, it is being required to maintain a large but aging fleet. While there is money going to the Future Vertical Lift pr ...
How The U.S. Government Helped Kill 4,000 Jobs This Week At Boeing (From Forbes) Boeing disclosed Wednesday that it will have to eliminate at least 4,000 positions at its commercial aircraft operation this year, and maybe twice that number as the operation strains to stay price-competitive with rival Airbus.  Boeing jetliners are g ...
Much Maligned JLENS Could Be Central To An Advanced U.S. Air And Missile Defense Network Admittedly, what went wrong with the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS) last October was, in one sense, pretty spectacular. One of the two tethered blimps that carry the JLENS sensors aloft broke free from it ...
As Leidos Doubles In Size, CEO Roger Krone Sees A World Of Opportunity In High-End Services (From Forbes) Leidos Holdings, Inc. has surmounted the latest regulatory hurdle on its path to acquiring the Information Systems & Global Solutions business of Lockheed Martin.  Assuming that transaction is completed later this year as planned, Leidos will becom ...
Directed Energy Weapons Will Be The Key To A Successful Third Offset Strategy The United States is losing its long-held advantage in advanced sensors, computer-based battle management and precision weapons. These are the key technologies underpinning the so-called Second Offset Strategy which allowed the U.S. military to deter e ...
“Solid Progress”: F-35 Fighter, Pentagon’s Biggest Program, Is Moving Forward Fast (From Forbes) Senior Pentagon officials testified before Congress last week on the status of the tri-service F-35 fighter program, and the news was mostly positive.  According to a joint statement by the Navy's acquisition czar and the Air Force general overseeing t ...
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