Defense
Now Is The Time To Provide U.S. Armored Vehicles With Active Protection Systems
For a Service that keeps talking about preparing itself for future conflicts against increasingly capable state and non-state adversaries, the U.S. Army sure isn’t doing much. It has basically given up in the near and medium terms on any substantively ...
Lockheed Martin Government Relations Wizard Greg Dahlberg Launches Consulting Practice
The mastermind of Lockheed Martin's government-relations strategy during the most challenging years for the F-35 fighter program has retired from the company, and will establish a Washington consulting practice. Gregory Dahlberg spent a dozen years ma ...
ISIS: The First Transnational Insurgency
The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a succession of uprisings in different areas of the world. An insurgency is a rebellion against a settled authority to take control of its territory –sometimes considered identical to terrorism because of ...
BAE Systems Reports Strong Results In U.S. Defense Business, Reflecting Sector Trend (From Forbes)
The world's third largest military contractor seems to be doing remarkably well in the world's biggest defense market. U.K.-based BAE Systems reported July 30 that all three of the business units in its American subsidiary exhibited favorable trends i ...
Boeing Says Ex-Im Bank Demise May Force It Offshore (From Forbes)
The nation's biggest exporter says it may have to move operations offshore if Congress does not renew the charter of the Export-Import Bank. Chicago-based Boeing is the biggest beneficiary of Ex-Im credit facilities, which means if the bank is not ext ...
DoD’s Cyber Perfect Storm: The Growing Threat Meets The Evolving Network
Yesterday’s report that the Department of Defense had to shut down the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s unclassified e-mail system should come as no surprise to anyone. DoD networks are under continuous attack, 250,000 a day by some estimates, ranging from curi ...
Congress Moves To Impose Market-Style Reforms On Pentagon Weapons Purchases (From Forbes)
Having tried just about every other approach to reforming the Pentagon's reviled system for purchasing weapons, Congress is now moving to embrace the lessons of the marketplace. Word is that the House-Senate conference reconciling competing versions of ...
The “Re-pivot” To Europe Is Underway
Back in 2009, as part of its new security strategy, the Obama Administration announced its intention to focus more of its diplomatic and security energies on the Asia-Pacific region. As explained by one of the architects of this strategic pivot, then-a ...
Ex-Im Bank Debate Reflects America’s Decline
There was a time when America could rightly call itself the "arsenal of democracy." Its industrial output was so great that it dwarfed the production of potential enemies. Those days are over. The smart phone or laptop computer on which you are readi ...
F-35 Fighter Engines: How The Pentagon Will Make Sure Pratt & Whitney Performs (From Forbes)
United Technologies unit Pratt & Whitney is making steady progress in completing development of its F135 engine for the F-35 fighter. Unit costs are way down, the readiness of engines in the field averages 96%, and tests indicate the F135 will be ...