Defense

Tracking Terrorists: Congress Presses Pentagon To Speed Replacement of JSTARS Radar Planes (From Forbes) Sixty members of Congress, including most members of the defense authorization and appropriations panels in the House, are pressing the Pentagon to get moving on recapitalization of the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS).  The fleet ...
Video: November 13 Defense Acquisition Reform Event On November 13 the Lexington Institute hosted an acquisition reform event on Capitol Hill that brought together many experts in the field.  Speakers included Byron K. Callan, Managing Director, Capital Alpha Partners; The Honorable Gregory R. Dahlberg, ...
Aircraft Carriers Provide Best Value To The Nation In Uncertain Times Which military platform or system is best suited for the uncertain and dangerous times in which we live? If you could choose one would it be a long-range bomber (B-1, 2, 52 or the new LRS-B), fighter aircraft (F-15, 16, 18, 22 or the new F-35), the M-1 ...
Is CNN Making Us Less Safe? (From Forbes) Every time there is a mass shooting in America, the media engage in a ritualized debate about the Second Amendment, and whether new technology makes it necessary to rethink the right to keep and bear arms.  Curiously, this same logic is seldom applied ...
Kenneth Miller’s Speech: Rethinking Defense Acquisition The following remarks were delivered by Kenneth E. Miller, President, KEM & Associates, LLC, at a November 13 Lexington Institute event on Capitol Hill. Over my 35 years in government and six plus years in private consulting many ideas are being ch ...
The Air Force Is Taking Way Too Long To Buy A New “T-X” Trainer For Its Young Pilots (From Forbes) The U.S. Air Force operates an aged fleet of 500 Cold War training aircraft that are used to instruct young pilots in how to fly fighters and bombers.  The planes are called T-38 Talons, and they are well past their prime.  In fact, they should have be ...
It May Be Time For A New Sykes-Picot Agreement The international community finally is in agreement on the need to destroy ISIS. They are in accord also on the need to employ greater military force against the self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq; even Germany has committed some 1,200 militar ...
Growing Terrorist Threat Requires New U.S. Investments in Counter-IED Capabilities Once upon a time, the U.S. military thought it was pretty much through having to deal with large scale, protracted counterinsurgency operations. That is what it was told by the Pentagon in the 2010 Defense Strategic Guidance and the 2012 Quadrennial De ...
Pat Tracey’s Speech: Taxpayers Deserve An Acquisition System That Enables Success The following remarks were delivered by Pat Tracey, Vice President, Homeland Security and Defense, Hewlett Packard Enterprise at a November 13 Lexington Institute event on Capitol Hill. I will not pretend to be a student of acquisition and acquisition ...
Why “Containing” ISIS Might Not Be Such A Bad Strategy (From Forbes) President Obama attracted a lot of criticism when he told an interviewer the day before terrorist attacks in Paris that ISIS was "contained."  What he meant was that the expansion of the land ISIS controls had ceased, not that its ability to strike out ...
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