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Rethinking Competition In Defense Acquisition Click here to download the full study as PDF. Introduction In its 2014 Annual Report, Performance of the Defense Acquisition System,[i] the Department of Defense (DoD) states “Competition is the single best way to motivate contractors to provide the be ...
Now Is Really The Time For A Made In America Rocket Engine Russian forces are again massing on the border with Ukraine. President Putin was basically called a liar at the G-20 meeting in Australia when he denied Russian forces were operating in the neighboring country. Former Russian Premier Mikhail Gorbachev ...
Gains In Wheeled Combat Vehicles Are Closing The Gap With Traditional Tracked Systems Ever since the first primitive tanks appeared on the Western Front a hundred years ago, it has been the firm conviction of armored-warfare experts that tracked vehicles equipped with treads were better suited to mobility in mud and sand than wheeled ve ...
Pre-Mortem: Hagel Innovation Initiative Is Too Little, And Way Too Late (From Forbes) On November 15 Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel laid out his department's plan for a long-term innovation initiative.  The idea sounds reasonable, but in fact it is too riven with contradictions to produce useful results.  First, there is not enough ti ...
Obsolete A-10 Thunderbolt Becomes A Symbol Of American Air Power’s Decline (From Forbes) The A-10 Thunderbolt II, affectionately known as the Warthog, has become a drag on American air power.  Conceived during the Vietnam War to provide close air support to ground forces, the 40-year-old tank killer is outdated -- too slow to survive in co ...
The Asia-Pacific Region Is A Land Theater North America and East Asia are the two regions that will dominate the world in the 21st Century. Separating them is the Pacific Ocean. Because the Pacific is so vast and U.S. interests, allies and competitors are at the opposite end, it is no surprise ...
Six Reasons Republican Resurgence Will Make Missile Defense A Priority (From Forbes) The biggest manmade threat to America's survival is the specter of nuclear war.  But you'd never know that from the way the Obama Administration has dealt with national missile defense over the last six years.  In a typical year, less than one in every ...
U.S. Military Driving Towards Effective Ballistic And Cruise Missile Defenses Of late, virtually all the media’s and public’s attention on matters military has been focused on events in western Iraq and eastern Syria. The fight against the Islamic State is important, but it is by no means the only theater of conflict for the U.S ...
The RD-180 Replacement and the Future of the U.S. Rocket Motor Industrial Base Click here to download the full study as PDF. Introduction The United States was one of the two initial space-faring countries. Without assured access to space, the United States will cease to be a Great Power. It is almost impossible for those who hav ...
F-35 Critics Disappointed Again: Navy Variant Makes Successful Carrier Landing Just a couple of years ago, critics of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program were pointing to a problem with the tail hook on the carrier version or C-variant as another sign that the program was doomed to failure. Land testing had shown that the ...
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