Defense
Lifting Sanctions on Iran Will Likely Increase Terrorism
Now that Iran and the U.S., United Kingdom, France, China, Russia, and Germany (P5+1) have reached an agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program, sanctions will be lifted. As a result, increased cash flow will allow Iran to have more options, and will likel ...
DoD’s Greatest Challenge: Protecting The Defense Enterprise From Cyber Attack
The Department of Defense is not merely dependent on networks; networks provide critical military advantage across virtually all warfighting domains. These networks are constantly changing, growing, reconfiguring. There are now more than 7 million devi ...
What Is the True Intent of Chinese Expansion?
Beijing claims that almost the entire South China Sea, rich in energy resources with $5 trillion in shipping passing through it annually, has historically belonged to China and will always be so. These claims have angered neighbors, including the Phili ...
Lockheed Martin Announces Sikorsky Purchase And Strategic Review Of Services Portfolio (From Forbes)
The world's largest defense contractor is making big changes to its business mix as it announces plans to buy the Sikorsky helicopter unit of United Technologies and review $6 billion in services businesses for possible divestiture. Lockheed Martin Ch ...
LCS Program Proves Again That Quantity Has A Quality All Its Own
The headline in Breaking Defense says it all: “LCS: Production Surges, Price Drops.” Once again a major acquisition program demonstrates a truism known by every commercial producer on the planet. Numbers matter when it comes to a manufacturer’s ability ...
Boeing Takes Big Charge To Keep Tanker Program On Track (From Forbes)
Boeing disclosed Friday that it would take a $536 million after-tax charge to address fuel-system issues on the KC-46A Pegasus tanker it is developing for the Air Force. The fueling system was the last major item on the aircraft that needed to pass qu ...
Hack Me Twice, Shame On Me
It is almost becoming tedious; every week or two another major U.S. institution, government department or major corporation is hacked. In the last two years, successful hacks of Premera Blue Cross, Anthem, Target, Home Depot, J.P. Morgan, EBay and Sony ...
Ten Signs The F-35 Fighter Program Is Becoming A Smashing Success (From Forbes)
It seems the Pentagon's biggest weapons program is incapable of generating favorable media coverage. Reporters play up every problem (real or imagined) with the F-35 fighter, while largely ignoring the positives. But there are now so many positives t ...
Jon Etherton’s Speech: Acquisition Transformation – What Should We Do Next?
This speech was given by Jon Etherton at the Lexington Institute’s Capitol Hill Defense Acquisition Reform event on June 24, 2015. The essential elements of any successful enterprise are leadership, accountability and people. The Federal acquisi ...
Using Directed Energy To Defeat Massed Missile Salvoes
The Department of Defense is trying to recapture the technological mojo it believes it had during the Cold War. Not surprisingly, while we were investing, quite rightly given the circumstances, in armored vehicles and counter-IED technologies to defeat ...