Author Archives: Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D

Lockheed Beats Raytheon For Lead On Euro Missile Defense It didn’t take much insight to see who the big loser was in the Obama Administration’s decision to reconfigure missile defenses planned for Eastern Europe. Boeing lost the opportunity to be prime contractor on the so-called “third site” in the [Read More...]
What To Look For In The Tanker Solicitation The Pentagon has begun briefing members of Congress on its plan for re-competing the award of a next-generation aerial refueling tanker, and tomorrow the two teams will receive the draft Request for Proposals (RfP). The companies will have several weeks [Read More...]
GE Undercuts Its Call To Rebuild U.S. Industry In June, General Electric Chairman Jeffrey R. Immelt made a widely cited speech to the Detroit Economic Club calling for America to rebuild its export capacity and double the size of the domestic manufacturing workforce. Coming from a company that [Read More...]
Lexington (Almost) Tops Think-Tank Productivity Ratings The Center for Economic and Policy Research has just released its think-tank productivity ratings for 2008. The rankings divide think-tank budgets by number of media hits and web-site visits to determine relative productivity. Lexington Institute was ranked number 2 in [Read More...]
Issue Brief Feedback: Our “Un-Joint” Joint Staff There’s been lots of early feedback about my September 22 issue brief arguing that the All-Volunteer Force is becoming unaffordable. One especially interesting insight comes from a seasoned Pentagon insider, who observes the Joint Staff is so dominated by representatives [Read More...]
Navy Cuts Could Devastate Gulf Coast Shipyards Tony Capaccio of Bloomberg Business News today reported the Navy’s planned program cuts for fiscal 2011-2015. When combined with other recent Navy actions, they add up to a heavy blow for naval shipbuilders on the Gulf Coast. First, the Navy [Read More...]
The All-Volunteer Force Is Becoming Unaffordable Issue Brief Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently cited an estimate that the United States accounts for nearly half of all global military spending. What he didn’t mention was that since the current decade began, America’s economy has fallen from [Read More...]
Navy Needs To Rethink Its Strategy For Enterprise Network With the Pentagon’s Bush-era networking initiatives being canceled one by one, the Navy’s silence about its planned Next-Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) is rather curious. It has said so little in public since the year began that a casual observer might [Read More...]
A Simple Way Of Restoring Republican Economic Credibility Republicans have a problem: their plans for promoting economic growth aren’t working. George W. Bush followed the standard Reagan-revolution playbook of tax cuts, deregulation and free trade, and the result was the worst national economic performance since the Great Depression [Read More...]
Working Group: ICBMs Still Vital To Deterrence Last Friday the Lexington Institute sponsored a working group on the future of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile force. The meeting attracted diverse participation from government, industry and academia, with conversation centering on how the ICBM force is likely to fare [Read More...]
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