Defense
Friday, February 03, 2012
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1/17/2012
Findings In Brief
During the Cold War, the U.S. military acquired a vast network of public-sector industrial facilities and private-sector suppliers. Over time, a division of labor emerged between the two segments of the defense industrial base: private companies would develop and manufacture
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Features
1/10/2012
Remarks to the Space Enterprise Council
Thank you for the opportunity to be here today.
Unlike some of you, I do not spend a lot of my time on space.
I am a defense generalist, which means that one day I may be writing about undersea
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12/21/2011
Executive Summary
The individual soldier is the U.S. Army’s most important and frequently deployed asset. As such it is imperative that the soldier be provided the best clothing and individual equipment. The right clothing
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10/20/2011
Executive Summary
The United States has always had a special relationship to water. It is a nation founded from the sea. Its interior was explored and linked to the sea via mighty rivers and waterways that penetrate deep
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Defense Articles
| 1/17/2012 |
Findings In Brief
During the Cold War, the U.S. military acquired a vast network of public-sector industrial facilities and private-sector suppliers. Over time, a division of labor emerged between the two segments of the
. . . Read more |
| 1/10/2012 |
Remarks to the Space Enterprise Council
Thank you for the opportunity to be here today.
Unlike some of you, I do not spend a lot of my time on space.
I am a defense generalist, which means that one day I may be writing about undersea
. . . Read more |
| 12/21/2011 |
Executive Summary
The individual soldier is the U.S. Army’s most important and frequently deployed asset. As such it is imperative that the soldier be provided the best clothing and individual equipment. The right clothing
. . . Read more |
| 10/20/2011 |
Executive Summary
The United States has always had a special relationship to water. It is a nation founded from the sea. Its interior was explored and linked to the sea via mighty rivers and waterways that penetrate deep
. . . Read more |
| 8/15/2011 |
Capitol Hill Electronic Attack Conference – 7/28/11
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| 5/26/2011 |
The Lexington Institute organized a Capitol Hill forum on insourcing and outsourcing on May 26, 2011. The forum consisted of a series of back-to-back ten minute presentations by subject matter experts.
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| 4/21/2011 |
Research Study
NASA’s human spaceflight program has been gradually losing ground since the Challenger disaster 25 years ago. Retirement of the Space Shuttle fleet and cancellation of the Bush Administration’s Constellation
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| 4/6/2011 |
Research Study
A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group (CSG) is the most powerful, mobile and flexible aggregation of military capability in the 21st Century. A CSG is fully capable of supporting operations across the
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| 4/5/2011 |
Research Study
United States ground forces entered Iraq and Afghanistan poorly equipped to deal with the challenges of protracted dismounted operations. While “equipping the man” has long been a maxim for land forces,
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| 3/10/2011 |
The aerospace and defense industry may be the most misunderstood sector of the national economy. With fewer than a million employees, the industry makes a disproportionate contribution to the nation's
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